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Quotes About Consequence

This is some­thing I'll go to Hell for.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No sin, no crime, then extinction not earned.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You just pay your filthy money, and somewhere else, the ax falls.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A veces haces algo y estas jodido, y otras estás jodido por lo que no haces.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Kid…" I'd say, "Don't say I didn't warn you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A veces haces algo y estás jodido, y otras, estás jodido por lo que no haces.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's not a big deal, the way Dr. Marshall sees it. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. In the gold wash of the chapel, breathing her reasons into my ear, she asked, every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Don't think of this as extinction. Think of this as downsizing. 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.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Mmph! Mmph." Translation: The Emperor will have your heads for this.
~ Chuck Wendig
Great, you ruined my life and you don't even remember it.
~ Claire Cook
It is what you haven't done that will torment you
~ Claire Messud
A fair price ... is nothing to be trifled with. A price, once paid, cannot be returned.
~ CLAMP
You can't give more or take more than the exact worth! If you give more than you need to ... you'll be hurt! In your body in the material world ... in your luck in the world of the stars ... and in your soul in the heavenly world!
~ CLAMP
Thanks to the choice you made, another future was set in place. And the choice you have yet to make, will decide another...
~ CLAMP
As Henry Ford once put it, "If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
As a consequence, the larger and more successful an organization becomes, the weaker the argument that emerging markets can remain useful engines for growth.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Much of the ability to create and maintain valuable brands, as a consequence, has migrated away from the product and to the channel because, for the present, it is the channel that addresses the piece of added value that is not yet good enough.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Supongamos que ha viajado usted en el tiempo, hacia el pasado. ¿Para qué? —Para decirle a usted que Sutton regresará. [...] Cuando Sutton regrese —dijo el forastero—, tienen que matarle.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.
~ Clive Barker