Quotes About Consequence

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

Love makes us do wicked things.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn't love it but because it is not afraid of it.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

That person, I can't remember who it was right now, who said the pen was mightier that the sword-I thnk they were wrong. I think the eraser is actually the most powerful tool. I wish there was an eraser that could erase the things a person did. And erase other people. Writing things down doesn't erase anything. What's done is done, and that really sucks.

We are the only creature that can harm at a distance.

The Pacific is about a foot and a half higher along its western edge—a consequence of the centrifugal force created by the Earth's spin.

So Whitney's gin not only helped make many people rich on both sides of the Atlantic but also reinvigorated slavery, turned child labor into a necessity, and paved the way for the American Civil War. Perhaps at no other time in history has someone with a simple, well-meaning invention generated more general prosperity, personal disappointment, and inadvertent suffering than Eli Whitney with his gin. That is quite a lot of consequence for a simple rotating drum.

pyrrhic victory is not, as is sometimes thought, a hollow triumph. It is one won at a huge cost to the victor.

Would Giovanni da Verrazano think being eaten by cannibals a reasonable price to pay for having his name attached to a toll bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island? I suspect not.