Quotes About Consequence

The society as a whole is neither better nor worse off. If

From action or inaction each one of us derives a gain or a loss and at the same time one causes a gain or a loss to some one else.

che significa che siamo liberi di prendere delle decisioni, se il nostro comportamento non fa che seguire le leggi della natura?

Ten years before understanding that time is slowed down by mass,21 Einstein had realized that it was slowed down by speed.22 The consequence of this discovery for our basic intuitive perception of time is the most devastating of all.

She knew that when somebody told you these sorts of things, they were pebbles cast into the pool and you ought to look carefully at the ripples of implication.

I think that sometimes when you get used to a bad thing -- like being in prison or getting kidnapped by fairies -- it's better to live with that bad thing than trying to change it. Because what if you get to chance to change it and you mess up? What if it's your last chance?

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck.

alea iacta est: 'the die is cast'.

One never knows what difference anything will make until the difference is made.

You were going to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else?" I cringed. "Then I wimped out.

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

Just because it's forbidden doesn't mean it's good for you.

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

a loss unconsidered at the time. But to decide for anything is to decide against a multitude of other things. Taking is still more largely leaving. The full extent of this negative decision often escapes our notice, and through the very fact of choosing a good we blindly neglect a best.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will...

It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on its head.

The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands!

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die... a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

The things I do for love.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.