Quotes About Consequence

Problem is, I want to make breaking up Jo and Ryodan number one on my list, which is stupid because there's nothing but personal satisfaction I'd gain from it, and while I'm all about personal satisfaction, I'm beginning to see a pattern: jumping on the short-term-gratification train always seems to wreck me off the rails somehow.

When you treated things badly, things behaved badly.

He's assuming. And as the man once told me himself: assume makes an ass out of u and me.

Careful with that thing, lass. Unless it pleases you to ruin my shirts.

What can one word hurt? It isn't like letting a woman have the power for a change can bring about the end of my world as I know it, for fuck's sake.

Dude, we're talking immortality. There ain't no price too high!

A chaste little kiss. Hardly even a kiss at all. Not that she would have invited his kisses, but—since he'd gone ahead and taken one and she was already damned for permitting it—was it too much to ask that he commit to it? Exercise a little follow-through? But

One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as in courts of law, long afterward. The subject therefore may not connect the punishment to his or her previous deeds; animals never do, and people often fail to. If a finger fell off every time someone stole something, or if cars burst into flames when they were parked illegally, I expect stolen property and parking tickets would be nearly nonexistent.

It's go time.' He takes my elbow and gentles me down the planks with such tenderness that I am suddenly very afraid. But there's no sense making the plunge slow and unbearable. I take a running leap down the pier- ... -and launch over the water. It's my favorite moment: when I'm one toe away from flight and my body takes over. The choice is made, but the consequence is still just an inky shimmer beneath me. And I'm flying, I'm rushing to meet my own reflection-

the gravity of wound to fist

How could you make a mistake when you had one option?

Anger is a boomerang.

The worthy ones, the secrets of consequence, swallow up the tongues of the living until they sleep together in the grave. Unseen forces, nevertheless they twist and mold unsuspecting lives, bruise and batter bewildered souls. Omerta -- what happens in the "family" stays in the family. Powerful, percolating, persistent, these insidious secrets are the ones I fear.

Are you going to kiss me or not?" He released the jacket. "Not," he rasped. "Then I'll kiss you." Cupping his nape, she drew his head down, but Nate laid his fingertips over her mouth. "Some things you can't take back." Claire lifted his hand. "Some things you don't want to.

Quien calla una palabra es su dueño; quien la pronuncia es su esclavo.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present

All feelings are permissible. Help him understand that it's what he DOES with these feelings that determines whether he experiences a negative (unhappy) or positive (happy) outcome. Teach him the Law of Cause and Effect.

But if you're going to think about your past, rather than dwell on the reasons you shouldn't have done something, remember the reasons you did. I mean, everything we do in life has some element of right and wrong to it.

So it's just a one-night stand." His head came up. Eyes as blue as the sky bored into her. "In case you haven't noticed, the sun is still up.

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.

But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.

our beliefs about economic growth are almost religious: personal in nature, political in consequence, privately held and little discussed.

Like Frankenstein, I am afraid of the monster I have called into existence.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.