Quotes About Consequence

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

When you take smaller gambles, no one particular deal can be big enough to have a material adverse effect on the company.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

The snake will always bite back.

I jumped off a platform, was supposed to land on a roof and slide down it, but I cleared the roof and landed on my ankle - snapped that to one side.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Everybody knows all the movements. General So and So should have done such and such. God knows we all try. We none of us lose battles on purpose. But now on this field what can we do that's undone?

This is the great battle. Tomorrow or the next day. This will determine the war. Virginia is here, all the South is here. What will you do tomorrow?

Because he knew it was always what you chose to do right now that mattered. And you always had a choice.

One may cover over secret actions, but to be silent on what all the world knows, and things which have had effects which are public and of so much consequence is an inexcusable defect.

The danger was not that I would do wrong, but that I would do nothing

Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?

No...if the world demanded their deaths in return for safety, she would have watched it burn.

Why will you not just accept what is? You have done as you will in my domain. I have exacted no price for actions that would be the death of any other. Why? I am your enemy here! It does little harm.

You fucked up, mate. Looks like you're a goner.

I was a licensed investigator who knocked off somebody who needed knocking off bad and he couldn't get to me. So I was a murderer by definition and all the law could do was shake its finger.

Your reaction comes from a belief that is deep inside you. The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it becomes a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices. If the consequence is not what you want, change it again and again until you finally get the result you want.

Just thinking "What if?" can create a huge drama in our lives.

But when the choice is between doing nothing and doing harm, surely nothing is the wiser option?

The time had come to act, to drink the bitter cup of responsibility.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist_

To the sound of his unbroken sobbing and the woman's groans I managed, if the truth be known, to break the baby's arm. The child was born dead. God, how the sweat ran down my back! For an instant I somehow imagined that some huge, grim, black figure would appear and burst into the cottage, saying in a stony voice: 'Aha! Take away his degree!