Quotes About Consequence

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Hell is truth known too late.

You will do what looks good to you on paper / We will do what we must.

But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you.

Paper." "What kind of paper? What for?" "A letter." "Business? Personal? This is for you? You're going to write a letter?" "Yes, sir." "Well, what kind of a letter is it?" Tommy considered the question for a moment, seriously. He didn't want to get the wrong kind of paper. "A death threat," he said at last.

Sarát levetkÅ'ztetni gátlástalan cselekedet volt, szinte vandalizmus, mint szabadon ereszteni egy állatkert lakóit vagy felrobbantani egy gátat.

I told him through the door that he could take his job and shove it up his ass. 'Course, a week later I had to ask him to pull it out of his ass and give it back to me.

Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully

she was collateral damage

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than the cause, though it's the cause that is usually the most vilified.

dañaba su causa porque estaba dando al enemigo un rostro y aumentando la rabia y la resolución de América.

Sometimes you do the wrong thing for the right reason.

Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.

As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.

Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always. "The scientists want it that way. They have to stick their instruments in. They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate.

If they were all concerned, why didn't they do something about it? But of course that's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late. We put the stoplight at the intersection after the kid is killed

The nature of ambition is that it requires casualties.

If you do, you'll be running an incalculable risk. It will be up to you whether the world begins to live again or stands still forever and a day. Are you really prepared to take that risk?

There is nothing more dangerous in life than dreams that come true...

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.

the risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don't.

There is another way to think of John MacWilliams's fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions.