Quotes About Consequence

Me di cuenta entonces de que eso se debía al cigarrillo, de que al fin estaba pagando al contado la deuda acumulada en quince años de fumador desenfrenado.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

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

By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.

Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.

The way you walk is slash and burn. Like understatement's now a crime.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

War is an admission of failure

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

If there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

What is intended to be said, if left unsaid, becomes a matter of regret later.

the United States exploded a 10.4-megaton thermonuclear bomb in the Pacific, vaporizing the island of Elugelab. A clearly depressed Conant told a Newsweek reporter, "I no longer have any connection with the atomic bomb. I have no sense of accomplishment.

Ein Pakt mit dem Teufel ist nie eine Möglichkeit.

The Fall of Rome, the biggest and greatest of all Empires, was due to the Faith of people the Romans deemed weak and inconsequential. The more they tried to squash them, the stronger their faith grew until Rome, with all its might and cruelty, became the very weak and inconsequential people they looked down upon.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

It is so delightful to be of enough consequence to be arrested

I invested all my money in debt.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.

There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.

In 2006, when doing a live stage show in Ireland, I tried for the first time to instantly induct a subject on stage, something I had never done before, nor did I know if it would ever work. The result almost cost me my career; the man I grabbed and instantly inducted went out cold and fell to the floor.