Quotes About Consequence

You'll always be sad about this, but it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

Le conditionnel passé, le temps des opportunités manquées.

A million little chances to change the future. They should never have married. He should never have touched her. She should have turned around, stepped out of his office into the hallway, walked away. He sees with utter clarity: none of this was supposed to happen. A mistake.

Maybe she didn't know what she was giving up until afterward. Maybe once she saw the baby she changed her mind.

Now she thought of the fly landing daintily in the pool of resin. Perhaps it had mistaken it for honey. Perhaps it hadn't seen the puddle at all. By the time it had realised its mistake, it was too late. It had flailed, and then it had sunk, and then it had drowned.

You'll always be sad about this. But it doesn't mean that you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

È peccato solo il rifare un'azione che già si sa porta al rimorso e quindi a una risoluzione (arricchimento) che non ci arricchisce piú, avendoci già arricchito una volta. Dico bene?

Going to war is like going to law - the only certain outcome is the cost

Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.

As a consequence there was no admissible evidence with which to bury Jimmy Hoffa, and the perjury indictment was dismissed.

they wanted the guy left right there on the sidewalk as a message to those who needed to know the guy did not get away with whatever it was he had done. Anytime you read in the paper about a masked gunman, rest assured the gunman had no mask on.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

But if the rooster crows, this is not for the farmer. (Mais si le coq a chanté, - Ce n'est pas pour le fermier.)

Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur Autant que la mâchoire)

The lover steals a kiss. He incurs life imprisonment. (L'amoureux vole un baiser. Il encourt perpétuité)

Nobody's enemy but his own.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled.

we have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime.