Quotes About Consequence

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Decisions determine destiny.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

Not to decide is to decide.

In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat.

The die is cast.

Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

AH the fat's in the fire.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.