Quotes About Consequence

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers' lives.

Capital punishment is symbolic of society's determination to enforce all of its laws. If we don't enforce the severest of our laws, the criminal mind might conclude (punishments of) other laws won't be imposed against them

I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words,' objected Milo. 'Of course, of course, everyone here does,' the king grunted. 'You should have made a tastier speech.

I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words: - Milo

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.

De um jeito ou de outro, se ela foi embora, foi porque eu permiti: quando a dor entra em nossa casa, quase sempre é com a nossa própria chave.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

Cuidado com as coisas de que mais tarde pode se arrepender.

If you act as if nothing has happened, and if nothing more comes of it, you will indeed find that nothing has happened after all.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

So that's it? asked the expendable. Final decision, said Ram. And it's the right one. Why do you think so? Because we live or die, we'll learn something important from jumping into the fold. Thousands of future travelers will either follow us or not. But if we don't make the jump, we'll learn nothing, have no new options. A lovely speech. It has been sent back to Earth. It will inspire millions. Shut up, said Ram.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

Even gentle people recognize that sometimes the decision not to kill is a decision to die.

Everything we do means something.

Heck, everything we decide will be wrong, said Step, because no matter what we do, something bad will happen later. So I refuse to regret any of it.

if he maintained that speed and went outside, the ship would appear to him as if it wasn't moving at all since he would be moving at the same velocity. But going outside at a high velocity was risky. He'd expose himself to gamma radiation and the threat of micrometeoroids. Getting hit by a tiny rock particle would likely be fatal. Victor couldn't take that risk. Not with so much at stake. It would

And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

Whatever action you take must be the final action, for you'll get no second chance to surprise the same man.

it's not unusual in history for the solution to one problem to become the root of the next one.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.