Quotes About Consequence

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Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So

La tragedia del suicida consiste en que nada más saltar por la ventana, entre el séptimo y el sexto piso, se arrepiente: «¡Oh, si pudiese volver atrás!»

Es posible que la realidad no sólo sobrepase a la ficción, sino que la preceda, o más bien se apresura con adelanto, a reparar los daños que la ficción reparará?

One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

Why hang a man who was so ready to hang himself?

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

There is one right even more important than the right to send men to their deaths without thinking: the right to think twice before you send men to their death.

Anytime somebody goes two days without reporting a constraint, you can bet there's a bigger problem lurking. Busy, productive people who are doing anything of consequence get stuck pretty regularly. The only people who don't get stuck are those who aren't doing anything or are so stuck that don't know it!! So, challenge the team member who reports, "Everything is fine!

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

Jehan, Jehan! All this will have a bad end. It'll have had a good beginning.

the galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.

What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery.

There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.

How often it happens, that, when a catastrophe occurs, if we inquire into the cause we find it originated through the obstinacy of one with little ability, but having full faith in his own powers.

Ce qui est certain, c'est que, d'ordinaire, après les vainqueurs viennent les voleurs. Mais mettons le soldat, surtout le soldat contemporain, hors de cause.

The prison makes the convict.

Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Te diré su nombre y el mío: él se llama Crimen y yo Castigo

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future. She

Regret, I know, is a powerful remainder; it can bring the strongest man to his knees.

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. Sometimes, settling down was just plain settling.

She knew that she was making a decision she might regret, but it felt inevitable. "Nothing matters except us.