Quotes About Consequence

But you see, Miss Helier, this isn't a serial story. This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.

Poirot said: "Yes. It is not pleasant to think, is it, that now, at this very moment, someone is rejoicing at the successful carrying out of his or her plan.

Günah?n seni daima izler bunu unutma.

that. Be sure thy sin will find thee out.' Vera scrambled to her feet. She said: 'But, Miss Brent—Miss Brent—in that case—' 'Yes, my dear?

?çini çekti. Fakat ben ?ansa, kadere inan?r?m. Senin kaderinde benim yan?mda bulunmak ve benim affedilemeyecek bir hata i?lememe engel olmak...

The wish to kill and the action of killing are two different things.

For the stakes for which the guilty person was playing were enormous.

What am I driving at? At this idea: that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies colonization—and therefore force—is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased, which irresistibly, progressing from one consequence to another, one denial to another, calls for its Hitler, I mean its punishment.

Whatever our Present, it is not Magic… It may be Good, it may be Tragic… It depends on what we did in the past, Karma will decide until when it will last.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Lester starts unbuttoning Angela's blouse. She seems disconnected from what's happened. Lester pulls her blouse open, exposing her breasts.

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.

That's what a bully is," his dad said. "Somebody who pushes people around and never gets in trouble for it.

They only see us when we do something they don't want us to do

it's only a failure who would kill!

To win is to win, and to lose is to lose

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

When we choose things that are evil and stupid, then we pay the cost of lost opportunities to do something good—something wise and unselfish.

The economic crisis seemed to have taught them a lesson: that liberty without discipline was a formula for ruin.

There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that.

I'd sliced his head off because in that moment I couldn't think of anything simpler or more beautiful to do.

She hesitated, aware that an ill-judged phrase might anger Triumvir Hegazi; not that she particularly cared. Dared she call it the Melding Plague, now that the Yellowstoners had given it a name? Perhaps that would be unwise.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.