Quotes About Consequence

You have a strange look on your face," he said. "I just realized I shouldn't be in the same vehicle with you. In fact, I shouldn't have called you in the first place, so I'm trying very hard to rewind time.

You're out of your league, Curran said. No shit. I really didn't handle this whole thing too well, did I? No, he said. His voice held no sympathy. I wanted to ask for a do-over. I would be more restrained the second time around. Less mouthy. Unfortunately in real life you rarely got a do-over.

Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one.

We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them.

Sometimes killing a man wasn't an act of anger or punishment. It was a public service.

Taking a life always hurt. It never went away, no matter how justified the kill was. It still cost you a piece of your soul and it hurt when that piece died.

Power has a price. We don't always want it, but we always end up paying.

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge utterly and may lead in the end to heaven and to hell. Only later one sees how much and how awfully the fates differ. Yet what were the reasons for the choice? They may have been forgotten. Did one know what one was choosing? Certainly not.

Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.

No good would come of all these fine intentions.

It had occurred, it had happened , and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.

A less courageous person would have felt that it was too late, they would have felt ashamed, they would think wellI don't want this, I know I shall hate it, it's all wrong, but I'm so involved now I'll have to put up with it, and I know that later on I'll keep on wishing that I'd had the nerve to say no, even at the last minute....

If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people in this story would have been entirely different. Such is the vast play of chance in human lives.

It was too late to go back. There was a hand which could never, in grace and healing, be laid upon him now.

By a dialectic well known to those who habitually succumb to temptation he passed in a second from the time when it was too early to struggle to the time when it was too late to struggle.

She had made some sort of life-mistake which meant that everything would grow worse and never better.

Perché adesso so che fare le cose non ti ferisce:resti ferito se le eviti.

When you hurt some cunt […] it's you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you've done it for fuck all, it means nothing

The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.

Pero ¿podemos permitirnos el lujo de arriesgarnos? ¿Podemos arriesgar el presente por el bien de un nebuloso futuro?

a moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.

É realmente muito desanimadora essa estupidez universal. Acho que eu não sofreria tanto se o suicídio da humanidade resultasse apenas de pura maldade de coração ou por mera inconsequência. Mas é de uma falha tão desgraçada de dignidade, que estamos a ponto de nos destruir como fruto da mais obtusa e impenetrável estupidez.

No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.