Quotes About Consequence

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Se stavamo commettendo un'ingiustizia, bisognava pensarci su, e decidere se era necessaria e inevitabile, o se era solo il risultato della faciloneria, della pigrizia, della mancanza di riflessione.

Jim Is there no other way? Claire We could just say no to him. Jim Can't risk that. Collapse of conference, collapse of backbench support, collapse of Cabinet. Collapse of my career. The biggest disaster since Dunkirk. Humphrey I think not, Prime Minister. Jim Name a bigger one. Humphrey The Freedom of Information Act.

So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?" "That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future. . .you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me. . .what choice do you want to make now?

The value of choice is not in the size of the action but in its effect

Zak Knight "Revenge of

It seems the only sin Patrick could be talking about is homicide. Perhaps in a moment of rage or carelessness, the young Patrick impulsively killed one of the slaves who worked the family's lands. He could get away with it: after all, he was the son of the lord of the manor. But as time went on—and he found himself in the position of slave, his heart changed by the love of God—the gravity of his crime dawned on him.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Deterence is only a stay of execution, not a reprieve.

A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to think of it until it was far too late.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

Left or right, which will you take? For both of them your heart will break. One is cruel, one is fair, One a passage, one a snare. Choose the one that hides the light, And you will know your path is right.

You don't get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.

You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at.

Regret isn't a negative. Wishing we could do better isn't bad... And if you let go of that regret, if you forget about consequence, then what are you? Who are you?

verdad que le concierne íntimamente, una oscura consecuencia de su historia,

Nel caso di Romand il fatto più sconcertante è che la follia sia stata commessa in due tempi, come uno che mentre lavora al computer schiacci il tasto sbagliato, rischiando di perdere un file prezioso, e quando il programma chiede: «Sei sicuro di voler eliminare il documento?», dopo aver soppesato i pro e i contro, dia ugualmente l'ok.

Las mujeres son como las guerras: el que las ve de lejos y sin tocarlas más que con la imaginación, las encuentra magníficas, mientras que los que han conocido las guerras de cerca y han saboreado varias y las han resistido hasta el fin, ésos no hablan de ellas sino para condenarlas duramente... aunque al surgir una guerra nueva sean los primeros en alistarse para volver al frente

El ridículo es una especie de roña que el enfermo siempre descubre tarde, cuando ya se tendió a su alrededor un cordón sanitario.

Meski bisa mengelak dari hukuman, orang yang melarikan diri tidak mungkin bisa hidup tenang, karena mereka selalu dikejar ketakutan akan masa yang akan datang mau pun masa kini.

And often we consider pains superior to pleasures when submission to the pains for a long time brings us as a consequence a greater pleasure.

Non-Jews realized well that their non-conformity would not likely get them in trouble, and it almost never did.