Quotes About Consequence

A stitch in time saves nine.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

But he had not been able to go to her. That was no longer an option in his life.

If only she had not gone to London for that particular Season when she was eighteen. If only she had not attended that particular ball at its start. If only . . . But life was made up of seemingly small, unimportant, chance events that together created the pattern of one's existence. There was no changing the pattern of hers. It had led her to this very difficult moment.

It was the safe thing to do, but that did not make it right.

Into what had she allowed herself to be goaded?

Past colliding with present promised disaster.

I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.

Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76)

The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican.

I never would have shot him

Regret because you really can't control your life. Most of the time you don't act; you react.

Dat heeft die klootzak verdiend... - Vittoria Massi, vader van Giuliana na het doodsteken van Rinaldo di Chimici

Most morally ominous: from the second you choose one event over another, you're shaping the past's meaning.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

ignominious grave, and I the cause! A thousand times

For whilst I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires.

They call this retribution. Hateful name! When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge.

Quién podría estar interesado en el destino de un asesino, sino el verdugo que se iba a ganar el sueldo?

Begone! I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness.

This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess.

Ten of our brethren have been shipwrecked. One of them has caught a nasty, infectious disease. If he is allowed to live, the other nine will also get sick and die. If you were the captain of that ship, what judgment would you hand down?

What you decide to do in every moment determines what will happen the rest of your life.

Beware the camel's nose—for its whole body will soon follow.