Quotes About Consequence

Addicts want release from pain; they are not thinking about love. In Stanton Peele's useful book Love and Addiction, he makes the insightful point that addiction is not about relatedness. Addiction makes love impossible. [...] Hence, addiction is both a consequence of widespread lovelessness and a cause. [...] Greed characterizes the nature of this pursuit because it is unending; the desire is ongoing and can never be fully satisfied.

One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.

or not they plan to keep the baby. They

ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When

A harsh thing for any young man to hear, but this is part of every youth's education in the world, learning the risks are never fully revealed until you commit.

E' la maledetta casualità che ti logora, il fatto che la differenza fra la vita, la morte e una ferita tremenda a volte è legata a cose minime come chinarsi ad allacciarsi una scarpa, scegliere il terzo cesso della fila invece del quarto, voltare la testa a sinistra anziché a destra.

Se una pallottola ti deve colpire, è già stata sparata.

the really dreadful losses" always occur after "the buyer forgot to ask 'How much?

It's better to make the wrong choice, my father had continued, than to make no choice at all.

Play with the devil, Finan said, and you get burned.

If an oath is a mistake then you are still obligated because you are sworn to it.

Madness has a purpose! It's a gift from the Gods, and like all their gifts it comes with a price

and told that if I disobeyed then the sorceress

It's hard to force obedience without encouraging resentment.

Often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do.

Penso, chego a um resultado, mantenho o resultado preso a uma decisão e faço a experiência de que a ação é uma coisa por si mesma, que pode mas não tem de seguir a decisão. Com bastante frequência no decorrer da minha vida fiz o que não tinha decidido e deixei de fazer o que tinha decidido.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Almost all philosophers, in their ethical systems, first lay down a false doctrine, and then argue that wickedness consists in acting in a manner that proves it false, which would be impossible if the doctrine were true.

He urges his young disciple and friend Pythocles to "flee from every form of culture." It was a natural consequence of his principles that he advised abstinence from public life, for in proportion as a man achieves power he increases the number of those who envy him and therefore wish to do him injury.

Memory does not prolong the existence of the past; it is merely one way in which the past has effects.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for it's own sake.

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back. 2 Peter 2:21

People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.