Quotes About Consequence

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Since they have no choice. I felt myself tumbling from the high plain onto which Mr. Mompellion's sermon that morning had lofted me. What choice had we, after all?

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel.

Time doesn't offer a refund. We don't get to try on the future the way we try on a bathing suit and then decide we don't like it once we see what it looks like in natural light.

If only I'd done it then, when I should have, everything would have been easy. What a joke.

causes which are indistinguishable intrinsically, when considered by themselves, cannot produce distinguishable effects.

Tu non potrai fuggir le mie saette se l´arco tiro, o sciocca peccatrice! –

El triunfo de los dictadores es consecuencia de tres fracasos: de la filosofía, de la religión, del capitalismo democrático.

He would not want to sound like a haunted man; he would not want to sound as though he was calling from a welfare hotel, years too late, to say Yes, that was a baby we had together, it would have been a baby. For he could not help now but recall the doctor explaining about that child, a boy, who had appeared so mysteriously perfect in the ultrasound. Transparent, he had looked, and gelatinous, all soft head and quick heart; but he would have, in being born, broken every bone in his body.

You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned.

When you choose the path, you choose the destination.

But that slippery slope is already rearing its head . . . .

It was a good thing; and to admit that a good thing has derived from an evil thing is to bend the knee to evil to some extent.

Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.

we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

You can either choose the pain of discipline now, or the pain of regret later. Regret lasts longer.

Do you fear doing it? You haven't started feeling the effect of not doing it.

No consequence of right action is graver than the consequence of inaction.

Think as if you were punished for every deliberate wrong thought. You are.

Your fate is often on the road you take to avoid it.