Quotes About Consequence

T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

Begin all over again? It would be no good. It would all turn out the same—all happen again just as it has happened. For certain people are For certain people are bound to go astray because for them no such thing as a right way exists.

Prägen Sie sich immerhin ein, daß Toleranz zum Verbrechen wird, wenn sie dem Bösen gilt.

Dennoch gibt es etwas, was einige von uns in Augenblicken, die ihnen selbst as verbrecherisch erscheinen, andere aber frank und permanent, mehr fürchten als die deutsche Niederlage, und das ist der deutsche Sieg.

S?r?cia, cum bine se spune, nu este o ruÈ™ine, dar asta-i doar o vorb?. Fiindc? ea este cât se poate de însp?imânt?toare pentru cei ce au parte de ea, pe jum?tate cusur È™i pe jum?tate reproÈ™ nehot?rât, aÈ™adar în totul foarte dezagreabil?, È™i a te amesteca cu ea ar putea avea urm?ri nepl?cute.

If you don't want the effect, do something to remove the causes. There is no use loving the cause and fearing the effect and being surprised when the effect inevitably follows the cause.

We are not responsible for more than our own action, but for this we should take complete responsibility. Then the results will follow of themselves, in a manner we may not always be able to foresee. We do not always have to foresee every possibility.

Tom offered me a cigarette. The implication was that I was going to need it. Therefore, obviously, I refused it.

And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!

Damn you all. You have no idea what you're heading into. This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell.

To rule forever, continues the Chinaman, later, it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People,-- to create thus a Distinction betwixt 'em,-- 'tis the first stroke.-- All else will follow as if predestin'd, unto War and Devastation.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

Fate punishes the proud

Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

The feeling that the government should "do something" has seldom been based on a comparison of what actually happens when government does and when it does not "do something.

assume to be the cause and effect of our actions.

Each action you take, each choice you make, will grow something in your life and in our world.

Existe a vingança e existe a justiça. Às vezes as duas são uma só.

Ofttimes, a man brings his own destiny down upon his head.

It won't happen again, I swear it!" Karic rasped. "If we'd reached my lair in time it never would have happened at all!" "But it did, it did and nothing will ever be the same!

One often meets one's fate on the road one takes to avoid it.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

You'll regret crossing me!' 'Richard, I regret meeting you. I think you can safely assume that I also regret everything after that as well." (Smith 252)

How noble. But that's your fatal error. Right, boy?