Quotes About Consequence

On reflection,' Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, 'this wasn't one of your better plans.

Oh, God. Not again." Not again? "Do you make a habit of driving into people's houses?

It happened. It was frightening and horrible and we both wish it hadn't happened, but it did.

She might burn in hell for the things she was going to do this night, but she didn't care. Looking at him, she was certain every single thing would be worth it.

He was going to burn in hell for this, but he'd already had a place reserved in the hottest inferno...

Keep making fun of my name and every time you order a drink, I'm going to put something in it you aren't going to like, Ashe muttered under her breath.

There is always a price to pay, he observed, as if reading her mind.

I need to kiss you. I know. I feel it too. Scecsemo, what is it? If you kiss me, there isn't any going back.

The gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability.

Good!" Ripley said, standing again. She was tall, imposing, and she liked the way a couple of the guys winced a little when she shouted. "That's because I blew it out of the airlock.

The lesson of the biblical tale of Noah's ark was a simple one, a refrain that echoed throughout the Old Testament: Behave, or God will fuck you up.

The lesson of the biblical tale of Noah's ark was a simple one, a refrain that echoed throughout the Old Testament: behave, or God will fuck you up.

You have to choose your future regrets.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the foregoing, is a direct consequence of the premises, which you have stated.

The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the foregoing, is a direct consequence of the premises, which you have stated. The assumption that the Universe is a design, leads to a conclusion that there are infinity of creative and created Gods, which is absurd. It is impossible indeed to prescribe limits to learned error, when Philosophy relinquishes experience and feeling for speculation.

Cuanto peor es el infractor, más devoto resulta ser.

An Israelite could not have sung the familiar song 'God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, he's so good to me' (though the words echo the Psalms) without being reminded also of its ethical consequence: 'God asks me to show that goodness to others.

In real life, as opposed to pluralist fantasy, every moral and cultural choice of any consequence rules out a whole series of other choices. In an age of images and ideology, however, the difference between reality and fantasy becomes increasingly elusive.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

Stipendium peccati mors est.

I'le burne my bookes; ah Mephostophilis.

You know what? You know what? You know what?' I was waving my finger under her nose. 'You scratched the Son of God. That's your ass, that's what.