Quotes About Consequence

He crossed the road when the signal was red, that's his problem!

Once you've decided to live by the sword it doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong. What matters most is whether it's fun.

Where Sir Simon had got her with child.

Great anger is more destructive than the sword

If Ewan was a drink... he'd be whisky because he seems like a good idea when you're drunk but he makes you feel like shit in the morning. Haha!

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

Some people should never meet.

The button developed a life of its own, swollen with symbolism, a single chance at salvation pulsing redly in the corner and if I blew it too soon or left it too late then I was lost.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. 'Take what you want and pay for it, says God.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God.

And even if I somehow didn't: I had killed someone, and I always would have. It was always going to be like this. There was no undoing this, no talking my way out, no fixing it or apologizing it away, no smoothing off the sharp edges or planing it down so it could be tucked away into some smaller, manageable box. Instead it would grind me away till I fit around its own immutable shape.

You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

In traditional science fiction, according to Robert Heinlein, there are three lines of thought that drive writers: "What if—" [What if we built a colony on Mars?] "If only—" [If only we could fix past mistakes by travelling through time.] And "If this goes on—

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

He who loses his head, loses,

karma, which is Sanskrit for action, is the cause and not the result.

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. ~Taylor Caldwell

Just being a human being, Ive realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you couldve just said no.

Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!

If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?

Each moment follows inexorably from the previous one and is followed inexorably by the next, links forged in a causal chain.

He means the Word: the sentence that, when uttered, would destroy the mind of the listener.

Knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future.