Quotes About Consequence

Having already done more harm than the bullet had

He warned them at length about how terrible the risks were and how limited the potential benefit.

No matter what she'd done, you have to say... You have to say, 'It wouldn't have made a bit if difference.

Falk kunde som vanligt, och vilket var hans olycka, icke förrän efteråt finna passande svar på tal […]

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.

It is against the sin of forgiveness that I wanted to warn you.

The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer and that is he has acted through most of history.

There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.

And if you take away my life," she threatened, "God will give you blood to drink.

The First Mistake in Public Business Is the Going into It

maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn't afraid, because he knew he'd never carry it out. Right, but now, imagine that suddenly, in broad daylight, among other people, he meets IT embodied, chained to him, indestructible. What then? What do you have then?

Ci sono delle cose che sembrano cattive e invece sono buone. Si può tagliare un ramo per far star meglio l'albero, oppure per rovinarlo. C'è una pioggia che fa bene e una che fa marcire.

On ne se coupe pas la jambe avec une banane.

Samo zato što mu je sudbina pokazala vodu, nije zna?ilo da je mora piti.

The past is altered, constantly, by our actions in the present.

If you ever do this again, I'll tell everyone. And if that doesn't work, I'll blind you.

I said yes because I didn't want to do anything wrong.

And I really was sorry. And I know that she believed me. But when that didn't make any difference, and there was nothing but a bad silence on the phone, I really knew it was too late.

I sometimes think the biggest price we pay for war is what might have been.

Knowing those things are going to kill you, she said, and still you do it. How differently I might behave, Tom said, if immortality were an option.

Is that where it all went wrong? Or is it where it all went right?