Quotes About Consequence

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

Now that you know the wishing ways, you'll feel the wishes around you. They'll make you itchy, 'cause you know you can do something about them, but that ain't always the best idea.

I thought maybe I could just get away from everything. But you can't get away from a thing that's your own fault.

Right now it just felt . . . inevitable. And unalterable. She couldn't have changed her mind even if she wanted to. She'd fled, and there was no fleeing back. That would be worse than continuing to do nothing, than living with the status quo.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Don't Drink And Drive, But When You Do, Call Saul.

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.

I can't fuck up his whole life and take away everything that means something to him just because I think I've found my soul mate.' 'Yeah, but...' 'Yeah, but. I know. Having found my soul mate, how cruel is it for me to stay with Bob, pretending I feel more for him than I do and preventing him from going out and finding someone who loves him the way I love Mark?' 'You can't be responsible for other people's feelings

History creates context; context creates meaning.

But defeating one's enemies is only half the game; for a war to be truly justifiable one has to materially gain.

Burke was also gripped by a more generalized melancholy, one familiar to many who return from war, but which can't be easily explained to civilians, let alone to home-front loved ones. Along with its horrors, war is thrilling, exhilarating, it propels the prosaic concerns and nagging chores of everyday life into inconsequence.

By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.

Of course, it's wrong to set a fire on purpose, but if you have a small fire already burning, let it burn and see who, if anyone, complains, runs away, or comes to help. Similar truths are discovered by breaking rules: you need to break some to learn which are just for show and which ones matter.

I do not know why I shot the bird. At the moment I squeezed the trigger it seemed that the only two things in the world were the crow and myself. And now there is just me.

But that's precisely what you're doing. Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it's because you put some money on the counter, not because the gods transported a pair of lips to your cock." "That's Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a really incredible metaphor, Jean, but I think I could use some help translating it.

You bite on reflex, and then your conscience bites you.

It's a throat-slashing, shark-feeding, off-to-meet-the-gods offence, clear?

Yes...blood is the price of all things.

I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.