Quotes About Consequence

My chest tightens at the thought of what all this could mean to Lilly. But I have no choice. I made a vow to defend this country, and I'm the only person who can do this.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly, that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent as to knowing what it is.

Consequences must outweigh probabilities

Both he who chooses heads and he who chooses tails are equally at fault. They are both in the wrong. True course is not to wager at all.

If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime

You always have a choice. It's just that you have to pay the price that goes along with your choice.

Often the mere suggestion of impropriety is enough to ruin someone. — Scot Harvath

Move or make a sound and you're going to the bottom of Dubai Creek. Understand me?

it sometimes happens that when one acts quickly and with great resolve, all the indecisiveness and doubt comes afterwards, when it is too late. So

But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

You're different," he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

from the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked… but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as i sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract ...

resultado, doença é resultado, o seu peso é resultado. Vivemos num mundo de causa e efeito.

A curse is a power Not subject to reason Each curse has its course Its own way of expiation Follow follow

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.

Ah, yes. ''Errors of caution are more likely to be considered at leisure than errors of boldness – but less likely to be considered after a victory.'' In other words, if you are too careful, you are more likely to live, but less likely to win.