Quotes About Consequence

There can be no such thing as a nation flourishing alone in commerce: she can only participate; and the destruction of it in any part must necessarily affect all. When, therefore, governments are at war, the attack is made upon a common stock of commerce, and the consequence is the same as if each had attacked his own.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion, whether men deceive themselves, or submit, by a kind of mutual consent, to the impositions of each other.

For trade being the consequence of population, men become too much absorbed thereby to attend to anything else. Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

Men begin by sinning against the light of conscience, and proceed gradually to despiting the Spirit of grace.

Bad aims will spoil good actions.

It is better that men should reproach you for repenting than that God should damn you for not repenting.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

There's an alternate universe where I never left, he thought.

To his credit, he knew this was a terrible idea. To his discredit, he was doing it anyway.

One time, while waiting in a Kmart checkout line, five-year-old Shane had seen some guy steal a waffle iron from a woman's cart while she wasn't looking. His mind had quietly spiraled over it. What if waffles were all she had to feed her thirteen badass kids because their dad squandered her modest bank-teller salary on fantasy-football bets and scratch cards? What if her life depended on that waffle iron? He'd obsessed about it for days.

I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our own hands.

It's sad knowing that after something happens, every option to change the past is gone.

She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.

With a 1–2 count, he had to try. The game—and maybe Sam Palomaki's future—was on the line.

No, I get techs because I want to; I don't care. I'm not getting techs for no reason. It happens.

When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

I'm addicted to the heightened awareness I get when there's a death consequence. My vision is sharper, and I'm more sensitive to sounds, my sense of balance and the beauty all around me. A lot of my creativity comes from this nearly insane obsession. Something sparkles in my mind, and then nothing else in life matters.