Quotes About Consequence

Doing nothing sometimes hurts more than doing something. Life doesn't come with a guarantee, which is just as well, because most guarantees are bullshit.

My greatest fear has always been to make a mistake.' 'Perhaps your greatest fear is your greatest mistake.

Imaginei que ele ia perceber o erro horrível que cometera, que rastejaria para mim, a suplicar que o aceitasse de volta. É do tipo de coisa que parece que nos daria satisfação, quando pensamos nisso, sabem? Mas deixem-me que vos diga, quando acontece mesmo... ou quando parece acontecer... é simplesmente horrível.

I hope they're smarter than that," Roarke said. "They made a choice, for a child they didn't even know. If that child made choices as a man, it's on him. What we do with our lives always is.

Fair enough. She lowered her knees, stared down as she buttoned her shirt again. Ty, I'm really sorry. I'd never do anything to upset Eli, or to cause trouble between the two of you. I know. He pushed to his feet and after a brief hesitation held out his hand to help her up. I want to make love with you. His already jangled system suffered. I think what we both want's pretty clear. I just don't know what we're going to do about it. I have to go after him. Yes.

All right." What harm could it do to have him along?  

And sooner or later, I'll make her pay for it. And I'll hold your coat. In the meantime, go to bed

would only lead to trouble. She took a solemn

If I screw this up, you won't have to take a swing at me. Parker would already have flattened

Changing it without damaging it. If you cut down a tree, is what you're putting in its place worth the sacrifice?

Sabes o que acontece quando olhamos sempre antes de saltar? - perguntou ela, tocando-lhe na mão antes de desaparecer porta fora. - Nunca chegamos a saltar.

such sacrifice, to damn an innocent to

Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.

In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of little screwups recedes now for a few hours to be taken over by the inside world of blowups, this time by a colossal blowup but shaped by little screwups that fitted together tighter and tighter until all became one and the same thing--the fateful blowup.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. So you just walk home.