Quotes About Consequence

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice--just policy

All of life hinges on what one does next, until finally one makes the wrong choice.

Evil is moral at its heart—the selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience

Tarde o temprano, a todos nos alcanza el rayo.

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice - just policy. pg. 504

One never learns how the witch becomes wicked or if it was the right choice for he — is it ever the right choice?

In an interview in the Paris Review, novelist and Rebel John Gardner made an observation that I've never forgotten: "Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay.

Our lives are in the space between Isaiah Berlin's "We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail an irreparable loss" and Borges's Garden of Forking Paths, where every choice produces a quantum explosion of alternate future.

One event sometimes had infinite ramifications and could change the whole settings of a person's life.

Emma repeated to herself, Good Heavens! Why did I marry?

Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household.

Faute. « C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute. » (Talleyrand.) « Il n'y a plus une seule faute à commettre. » (Thiers.) Ces deux phrases doivent être articulées avec profondeur.

How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!

Valora el impacto que tendrán tus actos presentes dentro de un año o más. Un resultado negativo, o incluso neutro, te hace perder el tiempo y tus recursos, te conduce al desencanto.

importa," she says. It doesn't matter.

la satisfacción de un momento es la ruina del siguiente.

Boys, here's where I cash in my chips.[House judiciary committee chairman Hatton Summers(D) to Vice President John Nance Garner about Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to 'pack the court'.]

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

We are not concerned here with the ultimate consequence of rule by terror—namely, that nobody, not even the executors, can ever be free of fear; in our context we are dealing merely with the arbitrariness by which victims are chosen, and for this it is decisive that they are objectively innocent, that they are chosen regardless of what they may or may not have done.

It has often been said that the British acquired their empire in a fit of absent-mindedness, as consequence of automatic trends, yielding to what seemed possible and what was tempting, rather than as a result of deliberate policy. If this is true, then the road to hell may just as well be paved with no intentions as with the proverbial good ones.

Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." — Hannah Arendt