Quotes About Consequence

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.

You say you didn't mean any harm: did you mean any good, Curdie?

that for God to give a man because he asked for it that which was not in harmony with his laws of truth and right, would be to damn him-to cast him into the outer darkness.

But may not one sometimes make a mistake without being able to help it?' 'Yes. But so long as he is not after his own ends, he will never make a serious mistake.

Now Malcolm was back again, but he came once too often, and was killed at Alnwick in 1093.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the forbidden thought.

Gordon wished he would come in. Sell him a copy of Women in Love. How it would disappoint him! But no! The Welsh solicitor had funked it. He tucked his umbrella under his arm and moved off with righteously turned backside. But doubtless tonight, when darkness hid his blushes, he'd slink into one of the rubber–shops and buy High Jinks in a Parisian Convent, by Sadie Blackeyes. Gordon turned away from the door and back to the book–shelves.

to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

In case of default, those so bonded were sold into slavery.

Perhaps not all the time will he be rewarded because sometimes his judgment may be faulty and

I delayed making a decision until it was too late, much to my subsequent regret.

A linked pair of writing dictums: "Don't make things happen for no reason" and "Having made something happen, make it matter.")

How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and our experience up until that moment.

A train approaches a wall at a fatal rate of speed. You hold a switch in your hand, that accomplishes you know not what: do you throw it? Disaster is otherwise assured. It costs you nothing. Why not try?

His heart dropped at the thought of the killing. hans vollman Did the thing merit it. Merit the killing. On the surface it was a technicality (mere Union) but seen deeper, it was something more.

Friend: We are here. Already here. Within. A train approaches a wall at a fatal rate of speed. You hold a switch in your hand, that accomplishes you know not what: do you throw it? Disaster is otherwise assured. It costs you nothing. Why not try?

causation is what creates the appearance of meaning. "The queen died, and then the king died" (E. M. Forster's famous formulation) describes two unrelated events occurring in sequence. It doesn't mean anything. "The queen died, and the king died of grief " puts those events into relation; we understand that one caused the other.

The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do.

It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.

The Fall was the consequence and punishment of man's free will that for the first time had asserted itself against the universal God and rejoiced in a consciousness and pleasure entirely its own - tragically its own; for man had to forsake the indwelling in the supreme Intelligence and thus the harmony between himself and Being as such...