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Quotes About Consequence

You have to reward them when they do what you want. I tried punishing them when they misbehaved, but the hammer seemed to crush their spirit.
~ Christopher Moore
A guy who used to come in the bar told me once that if you go in someplace and they don't pay any attention to you, then start stealing stuff. They'll either start paying attention or you'll have something for your time.
~ Christopher Moore
You don't have to explain why a character pulled the kid from the freezing river, but there better be a pretty good reason why he held that kid under.
~ Christopher Moore
Well, one guy died because of something I said to him, and another had a heart attack because of something I did. A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right? So why me?
~ Christopher Moore
Speaking truth to power is a noble endeavor but of limited utility if one's head is in a basket.
~ Christopher Moore
Not our problem. We don't have a dead blue hooker in our apartment.
~ Christopher Moore
Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.
~ Christopher Paolini
Whenever we kill, we kill a part of ourselves.
~ Christopher Paolini
For he who has the audacity to determine who should live and who should die no longer serves the law but dictates the law.
~ Christopher Paolini
Victory is victory, dead is dead, however it is achieved.
~ Christopher Paolini
He quenched the fires in his path but left the rest to burn.
~ Christopher Paolini
As she'd learned through painful experience, second-guessing could be every bit as deadly as overreacting.
~ Christopher Paolini
When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.
~ Christopher Pike
John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!' Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
~ Christopher Pike
Then you should have never been born
~ Christopher Pike
Victim: I don't want to die! Sita: Then you should never have been born
~ Christopher Pike
He had smoked dope exactly twice, but stopped when he realized it was called dope for a reason.
~ Christopher Pike
If you don't want to die, you should have never been born
~ Christopher Pike
He cries, "Please! I don't want to die." I lean over. My hair smothers him. "Then you should never have been born," I say.
~ Christopher Pike
Of course there are risks – there are risks to everything a magician does." - Lorkin
~ Trudi Canavan
But consider what he would have done to you, Sonea. One day you may have to kill for your freedom." Faren lifted an eyebrow. "Have you thought about that?
~ Trudi Canavan
apa pun yang kau lakukan...jangan mengeluh, tapi ambil konsekuensinya
~ TS Elliot
To be intensely educated about the horror of sin and then to be conquered by it. I tell myself that it must be prohibition that kindles fantasy
~ Umberto Eco
Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one—had you had the Opportunity? I
~ Umberto Eco