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Quotes About Consequence

Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.
~ Karen Rose
You gotta fish or cut bait,man.This has gone on long enough. You're playing with fire, every damn time you walk in this bar.
~ Karen Rose
Revenge might give you a warm feeling, but unless it delivers some lasting results you might as well have a nice cup of mocha instead.
~ Karen Traviss
But such is power, you get it, then you do things with it. And then you have to live with it.
~ Karen Traviss
Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.
~ Karen Traviss
Claire shook her head. She was scared that he wasn't taking her seriously. She was also scared that he was. They were down the rabbit hole now. There was no turning back.
~ Karin Slaughter
snorted coke because a boyfriend told her
~ Karin Slaughter
But on analysis of this concept it becomes clear that though private property appears to be the source, the cause of alienated labour, it is really the consequence, just as the gods in the beginning are not the cause but the effect of man's intellectual confusion. Later this relationship becomes reciprocal.
~ Karl Marx
Cher sang the song "If I Could Turn Back Time" about how she wished she could turn back time just so she could stop an argument that she'd had. If this is the sort of stupid thing people would be doing with time travel, I don't think we should encourage it.
~ Karl Pilkington
If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
~ Kate Atkinson
Choice, it seemed, was one of the first casualties of war.
~ Kate Atkinson
An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
~ Kate Atkinson
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it
~ Jacques Attali
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.
~ Joanna Baillie
No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
~ John Trumbull
Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.
~ John Wesley
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
~ Jonathan Swift
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
~ Julian Coolidge
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
~ Juvenal
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
~ Juvenal
A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.
~ Mao Zedong
That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
~ Max Muller
It is the doom of men that they forget.
~ Nicol Williamson
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.
~ Paul Gleason