Quotes About Consequence

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

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

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

You know, Youko. When you don't know which choice is the best, then you should choose the path you ought to take, rather than the one you wish for. You're going to regret the path not taken. But regrets being more or less equal, better the one where the regret is even a bit less." - Rakushun.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

This, of course, is a classic example of the failure of liberal economics. When evaluating a policy, it focuses only on one beneficial consequence for one group of people and ignores the multitude of harmful effects which befall all other groups.

If this were a game, he could hit pause. He could restart, say different things, the right ones this time. He could search his inventory for the item that would make Sadie not leave.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

The rub of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories is that if you don't make a few bad choices, the story will be terribly boring. If you do everything right and you're always good, the story will be very short.

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

He had said it would be trouble if she came to his apartment, and still she had gone. If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.

It would be so easy, Ismay thinks. You walk out. You swim for a while. You swim too far. You don't try to swim back. Your lungs fill up. It hurts for a bit, but then it's over. Nothing ever hurts again, and your conscience is clear. You don't leave a mess. Maybe your body washes up some day. Maybe it doesn't.

You think how much these books are like life. Except in Choose Your Own Adventure, you can move backward, and you can choose something else if you don't like how the story turned out, or if you just want to know the other possible outcomes. You would like to do that, but you can't. Life moves relentlessly forward.

Ah, but Sadie Green was a gamer! In a game, if a sign warns you not to open a certain door, you will definitely open that door. If it doesn't work out, you can always go back to the save point and start again. Sadie and Marx took a cab back to the

What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog "What does that mean?" "I have no idea," said the Dog

the result is what people live with, not the cause.

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.

Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would use it for ill, in that world or this, then it will be upon you to destroy it—though its end means your own life-long exile." —Young Waeglim

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but would they have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover.

When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover. Even if you're sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.

I did something that should not have been done and, by direct consequence of that decision, I sit here now and my world is destroyed, my oaths broken with my legacy one of misery and treachery.