Quotes About Consequence

There's no way to do that, Miss Archer. I won't say that if you refuse me you'll kill me; I shall not die of it. But I shall do worse; I shall live to no purpose.

One never said the things one wanted--one remembered them an hour afterward. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something. Such a sense was upsetting; it muddled one's wits.

I reflected that I had already, with him, hurt myself beyond repair.

That's the least part of it—after it nothing will matter.

Charlotte was in pain, Charlotte was in torment, but he himself had given her reason enough for that; and, in respect to the rest of the whole matter of her obligation to follow her husband, that personage and she, Maggie, had so shuffled away every link between consequence and cause that the intention remained, like some famous poetic line in a dead language subject to varieties of interpretation. What

He found all things come back to the question of what he personally might have been, how he might have led his life and turned out, if he had not so, at the outset, given it up.

grave inconvenience, they would incur. This would give a sense--which the spirit required, rather ached and sighed in the absence of--that somebody was paying something somewhere and somehow, that they were at least not all floating together on the silver stream of impunity.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a potent, cumulative effect. I am tomorrow what I chose to be yesterday and the day before. It is not possible that tomorrow I may negate and nullify everything that led me to this present moment.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

Even the gods Cowered like dogs at what they had done.

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.

Well, actually yes, in 1988. There was a warrant for me because my assistant hadn't paid a ticket of mine.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'