Quotes About Consequence

Barbara Tuchman has called 'the bitter truth of history; that progress and gain by one group is never accomplished without loss of some permanent value of another' .

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

Caroline Trent hadn't meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead. Or at least she thought he was dead.

He was just . . . George. And she loved him. She loved him, and—OH DEAR GOD, SHE HAD JUST STOPPED HIM FROM ASKING HER TO MARRY HIM. What had she done? And more importantly, how could she undo it?

If I do this, then that will happen, but if I do that, then this, this, and the other thing will happen, which will yield an entirely different result, which could mean that—

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Being willing to risk it all for any given climb will inevitably end at some point in disaster.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Sometimes I've made mistakes and not really listened to my instincts, and I've done a project, and I've been disappointed with the consequence, I think, as a consequence of not listening to whatever part of me it is that, at its base, is interested in telling interesting stories.

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

About violence, what it feels like to be nothing to someone else. What it feels like to be a consequence of someone else's dissociated rage, disconnected fury.

Pezzo di merda! Vorrei solo che avessi sofferto di più! Hai avuto la fine che meritavi! Spero che bru- (Piece of shit! I only wished you'd suffered more! You met the fate you deserved!

The real trouble with war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Don't aim a gun if you have no intention of pulling the trigger.  And if you do pull the trigger, shoot to kill.

My fault? It could be. So much was my fault, the result of my actions or decisions. Sabina

He knew he had changed because when presently he took confession from a woman who had been using contraceptives and whose husband had left her, he did not equate the sin with the consequence.

on in the SE. He saw his car and winced. He turned

Afuera Colombia roba y mata, adentro se hace la Ley. Lo uno es consecuencia de lo otro, es el eco.

This could not be a worse time to make a dumb move.

The devil made me do it!

This is the law of Karma, which is Sanskrit for "Comeback." "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.