Quotes About Consequence

If you stick your neck out, then the sword will come.

However, people are often willing to produce a lot of collateral damage if they can retain their theory.

Actions based upon the desire to take responsibility; to make things better; to avoid temptation and face what we would rather avoid; to act voluntarily, courageously, and truthfully—these make what comes into Being much better, in all ways, for ourselves and for others, than what arises as a consequence of avoidance, resentment, the search for revenge, or the desire for mayhem.

NOTICE THAT OPPORTUNITY LURKS WHERE RESPONSIBILITY HAS BEEN ABDICATED

I had considered changing my phone number, but I was so far behind on my phone bill that NYNEX was after me too.

Mathematics is the study of things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American" that we had "exercised our right to peaceful free expression." But if we did it again, he didn't "know what action the state board of education might take against individual students." Translation: You've had your fun. Now sit down, shut up, and take the freakin' test. Or else.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Ive chosen my path - and right or wrong, it's the one I tread.

Heller," he called after me. "I don't know what you have up your sleeve, but I suggest you not bother. Like Sun Tzu said: 'All battles are won or lost before they're fought.' " "He never said it," I pointed out. "That's from the movie Wall Street." "Doesn't make it wrong." "Well," I said. "I guess we'll see.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

It was agreed upon," Percy wrote, speaking in the passive voice of a decision that ought to have been his alone, "to put the children to death, the which was effected by throwing them overboard and shooting out their brains in the water." This

Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.

Perhaps the relevant truth- and it's one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I'm sure to much of the world, long before it became apparent to me-is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.

What have I done?

Only then did she realize that she had completely forgotten to meet Crowfeather at twilight. CHAPTER

Shut up!" The words burst from Rootpaw before he could stop himself.

Sometimes the right choice can be the hardest one.

Every event has a cause--that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence.... If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of freedom from any constraint, was entirely necessitated. You could not have done otherwise and hence, according to this conception of freedom, were not free.

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.

If you do this, you'll be personally responsible for the extinction of the human race." I went ahead and did it anyway.

I didn't try to run. I didn't even move. I just stood there and let justice take its course.