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Quotes About Consequence

L'amour est enfant de Bohême, Il n'a jamais jamais connu de loi. Si tou ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime. Si je t'aime, prends garde à toi!
~ Georges Bizet
It only takes a few minutes, a few seconds, to become a murderer. Before that you're a man like any other.
~ Georges Simenon
He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.
~ Georgette Heyer
The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
~ Natalie Wood
I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.
~ Cheech Marin
That's just what 'The 100' does. They like to put their characters in a position where no decision is the right one, you know? You have to kind of just hope that it works out.
~ Bob Morley
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
~ Thomas Hardy
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
~ Thomas Hardy
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
~ Albert Einstein
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
~ Marquis de Sade
We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.
~ Grace Potter
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
~ A. E. Housman
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
~ William Shakespeare
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
~ Anatoly Karpov
Any genre as it's called, I think can be quite reductive in terms of what a film is, because I think there is an eagerness to put in any film, in anybody's work, to give it a genre title and I think as a consequence of that, the film starts to obey the rules of the genre.
~ Steven Knight
You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
What would you think of a postmistress who chose not to deliver the mail?" I asked.
~ Sarah Blake
You put a guy who wants to control everything in the same room with a guy who'd rather wlak into a bonfire than listen when somebody tells him not to, and it's your own damn fault if you're surprised when things get ugly.
~ Sarah Monette
Guilt was like the taste of ashes.
~ Sarah Monette
And F. Scott Fitzgerald said, 'First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
~ Sarah Morgan
Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.
~ Sarah Ockler
Escalation is the key consequence of refusing to problem-solve or negotiate, and it demands our attention as a central obstacle to peace and justice.
~ Sarah Schulman
Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
Unlike those in other professions, artists cut the branch they are sitting on.
~ Sarah Thornton