Quotes About Consequence

Pero usted es el hombre y le toca llevar la iniciativa. Aquello empezaba a adquirir un cariz funesto. —¿ La iniciativa? ¿Yo? —¿ Qué quiere? Algún precio tenía que tener el poder mear de pie.

If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

ON MY SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY, I SPAWNED THE MOST ILL-FATED idea that had ever occurred to me. Without consulting anybody, I decided to host a birthday party and invite Barceló, Bernarda, and Clara. In my father's estimation, the whole thing was a recipe for disaster.

Mit dem Schnaps ist es wie mit dem Rattengift oder der Großzügigkeit: Je häufiger die Anwendung, desto geringer die Wirkung.

When something happens, something else always happens.

What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

in our choices directing our future." Amanda

There's a time when it's too late to do what you should have been doing all along.

The past defines the present and affects the future

Did you think of anyone else?" Enid had asked the folk of this household. "Did you think of the next generation that'll have to work this land and wonder why they're getting half the yield they should? Or the ones who'll starve when the land gives up because you"—she had pointed at them, with two stiff fingers—"couldn't be bothered to take care of it?

Because things accumulate around your name, said Berenice. You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can't jump out of your name and escape like that. And if it is good and you have a good reputation, then you should be content and satisfied.

You don't jump off a bridge by mistake.

You're always sorry 'after' you do something. You never think about how they feel or how you'd feel 'before'.

She longs for him to be here, but knows it was she who walked away from him. It's her fault he's not here.

ONE THING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude.

You reap what you sow, even in death. And so i got about sowing

Never do something that can't be undone.

When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

There were things I'd never do again, but then, they'd always seemed right.

When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.

There's no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.