Quotes About Consequence

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

He had no choice, he had told her, and then he left, choosing.

You win or you die.

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

Choosing … it has always hurt. And always will.

Glory may be everlasting, yet it is fleeting as well—soon forgotten in the aftermath of even the most famous of victories if they lead to greater disasters.

The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

Vengeane, Justice. Fire and Blood

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter which one bites you first?

May the Father judge him justly. Now, there's an awful prospect.

once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder.

Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.

Can our morrows be foretold?" he repeated slowly. "Mayhaps. There are certain spells in the old books … but Your Grace might ask instead, 'Should our morrows be foretold?

Never draw your sword unless you mean to use it.

What good did it do you to be brave?

My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.

Look at what kinging has done to me. Gods, too fat for my armor, how did it ever come to this?

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.