Quotes About Consequence

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

a taint on our purity is considered among us something more terrible than any punishment and any death.

Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.

When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.

The hand would chastise the head.

THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR IS A STRATEGY IN SELF-DISCIPLINE. EVERY ACTION, THOUGHT AND FEELING HAS TO BE CAREFULLY ASSESSED AS TO ITS VALUE. WARRIORS CANNOT WASTE THEIR TIME AND PERSONAL POWER ON ISSUES WHICH ARE OF NO CONSEQUENCE TO THEIR DESTINY.

Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.

Like a double-edge sword, success cuts two ways.

And we even recognise the apparent paradox that some limitations to our freedoms have the consequence of making us freer overall.

There are few illicit pleasures greater than that of causing pain to others for their own, or some higher, good.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

The butcher's bill was too dear.

Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

This was why sudden death was so feared: it did not give you time to put your spiritual house in order. You might have meant to repent but hadn't quite got round to it. Too bad. Down you go. All the way.

If something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody

on les pendit, they hanged them." Brief is the word; not without significance, be it true or untrue!