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Quotes About Consequence

What if the 'brutal thunderclap of halt' takes the form of the choice, Dishonesty or insanity?
~ Colin Wilson
If you believed in the holy circulation of envelopes, everything that went down happened because a man took an envelope and didn't do his job. An envelope is an envelope. Disrespect the order and the whole system breaks down.
~ Colson Whitehead
This city is reward for all it will enable you to achieve and punishment for all the crimes it will force you to commit.
~ Colson Whitehead
And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.
~ Colum McCann
The pleasure principle is an artificial creation of psychology. Pleasure is not the goal of our aspirations, but the consequence of attaining them.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Haz, bir yan ürün ya da yan etkidir ve öyle kalmas? gerekir ve kendi içinde bir amaç yap?ld??? ölçüde yok edilmiÅŸ olur.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless. Naturally
~ Viktor E. Frankl
la felicidad debe surgir como consecuencia, pero en modo alguno debe ser buscada en sí misma.
~ Viktor Frankl
divided Europe. Abel looked back on it all and wondered where he had made his mistake. Was it when he agreed to take the job from Saeed? Was it when he pushed the assassins and threatened to hunt them down? At the time, it seemed like his only option, but looking back on it now, it had been a foolish and emotionally inspired move. He had no idea who they were, and they knew far too much about him. It was clear now what they had decided. He had threatened
~ Vince Flynn
chemistry experiments where you started pouring different things into a beaker knowing full well there would be an explosion, and ultimately a mess to clean up.
~ Vince Flynn
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
~ Virginia Woolf
Something irrevocable has happened. A circle has been cast on the waters; a chain is imposed. We shall never flow freely again.
~ Virginia Woolf
We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
De ha gyorsan végezzük a m?veletet, ha a kitörölhetetlen b?nöket két gyors szellemesség között említjük, akkor van rá esély, hogy magának az életnek érzéstelenítÅ'je csillapíthatja a felejthetetlen kínt, ajtajának egy gyors lendítésével.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It was high time I destroyed him, but he must understand why he was being destroyed
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Cordone, delighted with himself for swindling the gullible Indians out of a fortune in pearls, stood at the railing of his ship smiling down at the pursuers. He was about to order his soldiers to fire upon the Indians when he was struck in the chest by an arrow. He dropped to the deck.
~ W.C. Jameson
You just promised me eternity, you know. I can make you live to regret it.
~ Lara Adrian
Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening
~ Lara Adrian
It was too late to stop now. This kiss had damned them both.
~ Lara Adrian
I should let her go. I never should have brought her into any of this in the first place. But it's too late for that. Too late for either one of us. There's no undoing the connection that's been smoldering between us since our eyes locked for the first time. Now, those flames are on the verge of exploding into something neither of us can control.
~ Lara Adrian
We all select our fates based on the paths we choose.
~ Larry Brooks
The First Plot Point of your story is when the story's primary tension—its antagonistic force—makes its initial full frontal appearance in a form that imparts meaning and consequence to the story's hero, and in context to stakes you have already established
~ Larry Brooks
FELIX: Whoever thought you'd die from having sex?
~ Larry Kramer
Power. Responsibility. The lesson she'd never quite learned: be careful what you ask for, for the devil will give you exactly that.
~ Laura Anne Gilman