Quotes About Consequence

How do you maybe hit someone?" Michael drawled. "Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.

No. I don't regret it. It wasn't the right thing to do, but I don't regret it. - Toni

There's always a choice. It's what you do with that choice that matters.

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.

I've dug this grave myself. I guess I have no choice but to lie down in it.

My intention, of course, had been to wake up early and call Father Dominic to warn him about Heather. But intentions are only as good as the people who hold them, and I guess I must be worthless because I didn't wake up until my mother shook me awake, and by then it was 7:30, and my ride was leaving without me.

When you fuck up, shit gets real.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.

I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house.

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief.

Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.

if you tease a dog, it bites.

He would go east and fight the emperor's wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn't a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor's palace. It was the work of their lives and the end of many of them.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

According to Imam Abu Baseer, one of the leading religious supporters of al Qaeda: One of the goals of immigration is the revival of the duty of jihad and enforcement of their power over the infidels. Immigration and jihad go together. One is the consequence of the other and dependent upon it. The continuance of the one is dependent upon the continuance of the other.2

Even now, remembering the sound of his voice chastens every word I say.

Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.

If the girl was anything like Harper, she would have an itemized list and a step-by-step process for carrying out her revenge. So if she really did risk someone recognizing her, it had to be for something important.

Next time, you might want to look before you leap.

Better, I thought, not to touch at all than to touch and bring hurt upon myself and others. Better to do nothing than to make a move and have it be the wrong one. But even deciding to not touch or to be nothing is a decision, Vanyel, and by deciding not to touch, so as to avoid hurt, I then hurt those who tried to touch me.

But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.