Quotes About Consequence

her victim—of necessity she must put him away from her—he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense.

You'll get your head shot off, Jem.

I kicked the man swiftly. Barefooted, I was surprised to see him fall back in real pain. I intended to kick his shin, but aimed too high.

We're all of us going to hell, it's just a question of time.

Nu, dom'le, mi-era team? s? nu ajung la judecat?, cum am ?i ajuns. - ?i-era team? s? nu fii arestat, ?i-era team? c? vei da socoteal? de ce-ai f?cut? - Nu, dom'le, mi-era team? c? o s? dau socoteal? de ceea ce n-am f?cut.

Entailment's are bad.

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

Aunque logres ocultar los recuerdos, o enterrarlos muy hondo, no puedes borrar la Historia. Más vale que se te quede grabado, la Historia no puede borrarse ni alterarse. Porque significaría matarte a ti mismo.

Es una lástima, pero hay cosas que no pueden volver atrás. Una vez has dado un paso hacia delante, por más que lo intentes, ya no puedes retroceder. Si se estropean, así se quedan para siempre.

People have to pay a price for the gifts they are given

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara a secret from Kumiko. My relationship with her was not that big a deal, finally: whether I mentioned it or not was of no consequence. Once it had flown down a certain delicate channel, however, it had become cloaked in the opacity of secretiveness, whatever my original intention had have been.

Y si lo piensas, verás que, aunque creamos que tomamos decisiones equivocadas, seguramente todo habría acabado como acabó. Habríamos llegado al mismo punto en que estamos.

It's hard to stop a war once it starts. Once the sword is drawn, blood's going to be spilled. This doesn't have anything to do with theory or logic, or even my ego. It's just a rule, pure and simple.

He is considering aspects of the interrelationship of thought and action. Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

I just wanted to reach out and touch it. I wanted to reach out and touch it and reach out and touch it, so I reached out and touched it, and she quick stood up and punched me in the arm.

I'm going to fire her, he thought, and I'm going to hear her voice one more time, and he picked up the telephone, dialing so fast and hard he missed the third number and had to start over.

The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It's never unscathed.

Violence never gives you a specific feeling that it's time to knock it off. That's because it is impossible to satisfy.

Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Adalet duygusu, Kohlhaas'? bir haydut, bir katil yapt?.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

T he test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.