Quotes About Consequence

Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

You're going to fly a radioactive ice ball the size of the Death Star back here just as the shit is hitting the fan—then what?

This Land was made wrong. All of his efforts to make it right only spread the wrongness about in new ways. It is left to souls like me to decide what to do about it; and though I cannot see all the answers, I can guess that adding more wrongness will not help matters.

That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking, what's your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?

They wouldn't have

Regret, even horror were appropriate. But detachment was necessary.

Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

ask yourself a simple question: What would happen if everyone did it? This is a very easy measure, and a very accurate one. If everyone did a thing, and the result was of ultimate benefit to the human race, then that is "evolved." If everyone did it and it brought disaster to the human race, then that is not a very "elevated" thing to recommend. Do you agree?

My law is the law of cause and effect, not the law of We'll See.

There are only things that could have turned out different. You don't have any should or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. [...] You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. You life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way.

No. There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. Your life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it's not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people - theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case.

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

Every word, every step, every action is irreversible. If we step in front of a moving car, if we sign a contract we haven't read, if we betray the person we love, the best we can do is try to clean up the mess. But no matter how hard we scrub, the stain on reality will never come out. The word you just read can never be unread.

There's a saying—'I'd rather regret the things I did than the things I didn't do.' " "I actually regret both.

You can get away with a bad decision, but not a bad mistake.

wanted to sleep with Beth tonight, but I didn't want to get involved tomorrow. On

Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price.

The Negro said, "I don't feel so good right now. Say, if I'd known that cutting your throat gave you septicaemia, I sure would have made a job of it." "Or else not done it at all," said Turner. The Negro paused for a moment in abstraction. "Well," he said at last, "that would have been another way.

if you knock down every law in pursuit of the devil, then the laws are gone when the devil turns on you.

for any fight to be successful, impunity had to be reined in.

Rather than being a cause of the late twentieth-century crisis, the Internet appears to have been a consequence of the breakdown of hierarchical power.