Quotes About Consequence

When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.

But there's a road to hell for every good intention.

If it was a time bomb, then what she had done that day was started the clock.

The curb is the launching point for many a deed. To step off could be the start of a life-changing journey. On the other hand to push someone off could crush that person beneath the wheels of a truck.

You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.

The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do is sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.

Pero de cada buena intención sale un camino hacia el infierno.

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behaviour with stardom

En matière de survie, il n'y a pas de seconde ou de troisième place qui tienne. C'est la médaille d'or ou la tombe. — Kelton

Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse.

The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking glass. I can't unbreak. The best you can do is sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.

Which means," said Rowan, "that this is your fault." And then he added with a little bit of derision, "Your Excellency.

And if there is some eternal world after this one, what fate awaits a taker of lives?

The punishment for making something barely edible was having to eat it yourself.

If we go through with this, he said, I will make it clear to the High Blade that it was at your insistence. If we fail, and your existence is ended, the blame will be yours and your alone. I can live with that, Citra told him. No, Scythe Constantine pointed out, you won't.

Then he left without paying the bill, because no bill was, or would ever be, brought to a scythe.

The way Miracolina sees it, if someone would rather blow themselves up than be tithed, well, that's like stealing from the collection plate, isn't it? It's just plain wrong.

Which is worse, I wonder - watching everyone you know fall into that ravine, or shaking their reality with such force that it ruins them

Which is worse, I wonder- watching everyone you know fall into a ravive, or shaking their reality with such force that it ruins them.

Which is worse, I wonder- watching everyone you know fall into a ravine, or shaking their reality with such force that it ruins them.

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

The man allured by a passing face, For ever bears the chastisement Of having wished to change his place.

every man believes that he can tame a nymph but it only leads to the grave — for the man.

and each temporary escape has a permanent price. neither drink nor love will see you through.