Quotes About Consequence

You don't mind breaking the law?" "Not in the least." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Not in a good cause.

one is a punishment and the other is a misfortune

He has spoiled my night's reading, and that's reason enough, if there were no other, why I should steer clear of him in the future.

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.

Zo komt elke angst in de wereld, zomaar, omdat iemand op een dag besluit te geloven dat er een gevaar bestaat.

What was decency? A certain form of convention, still bound by the traditions and rules of the knightly jousts. The new conception of honour should be formulated differently: to serve without vanity and unto the last consequence. ...

Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

History knows no vacillating and no consideration for feelings. It flows, powerfully and unerringly, toward its goal. On every bend it deposits debris and sludge and the bodies of the drowned. But—it knows its course. History doesn't make mistakes.

cleave not to faith when faith brings blood. - Rev. John Hale

I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.

Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

Porque ahí está mi nombre! ¡Porque no tendré otro mientras viva! ¡Porque he mentido y he firmado mentiras! ¡Porque no merezco besar el polvo que pisan los pies de los que van a ser ahorcados! ¿Cómo voy a vivir sin mi nombre? ¡Le he entregado el alma, déjeme al menos mi nombre!

They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.

For if the choice were given to any individual between his own destruction and that of the world, I do not need to say where it would land in the great majority.

Could the completed life course of such a man turn out in any respect, even the smallest, in any happening, any scene, differently from the way it did? – No! is the consistent and correct answer.

Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?

To whom did it matter? Did those to whom it mattered matter?

In the end it didn't matter of course.

He broke the eggs but burned the omelette.

The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken.... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

But the fact of eight deaths must mean something, right?

because of the previous damage, it couldn't safely be done.