Quotes About Consequence

At that moment, Kaladin knew he could kill, if he needed to. Some people—like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair—just needed to be removed.

It was too late to change one's aim when the hammer was already falling. But it wasn't too late to straighten his back.

Now he could never change his mind, and there was a kind of tragedy to that.

Like it or not, you are a part of the workings of this kingdom—and you produce effects even if you stay in bed. If you do nothing, then the problems are as much your fault as if you had instigated them.

que nadie ha lamentado nunca darle una sacudida de más, pero te garantizo que todo hombre lamenta darle una de menos».

I find nothing more frightening than a man trying to do what he has decided is important. Very little in the world has ever gone astray - at least on a grand scale - because a person decided to be frivolous.

The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process

It wasn't time for a show. It was time for a beating.

He'd had a year to think about what to say. And if he failed, he'd have an eternity to think about what he'd done wrong.

We're going to kill them, aren't we?" William Ann asked. "Yes." "How much are they worth?" "Sometimes, child, it's not about what a man is worth.

Sometimes," Dalinar said, "the prize is not worth the costs.

a bank was a target. Building a place like this, then stuffing it full of cash, was like climbing atop a hill and daring anyone who approached to try to knock you off.

Dance with the Devil

With regret, we believe the outcome was caused by our decisions or actions.

There's no such thing as the biggest mistake," her mother said. "There's only what you do and what you don't do.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be.

History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.

Aunque más adelante he elegido mal de vez en cuando en la vida, nunca podrá compararse con la derrota que supone no elegir en absoluto.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

It is typical of government price-fixing schemes that they escape one undesired consequence only by plunging into another and usually worse one.

post hoc ergo propter hoc

The natural consequence of a thoroughgoing over-all price control which seeks to perpetuate a given historic price level, in brief, must ultimately be a completely regimented economy.