Quotes About Consequence

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

We pay large costs, particularly in energy costs and birthing difficulties, for our cognitive apparatus. Is this another cultural consequence?47

Krieg ist eine bescheuerte Sache, doch trotzdem mussten wir ihn führen. Mussten. Fragt mich nicht, warum. Wir mussten.

Enten er du i himmelen, eller så er du i helvete. Det finnes ingen mellomting. Det nytter ikke å vingle. Det finnes ingen middelvei! Og du, min venn, DU ER I HELVETE?!

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

Zorunsuzluk kültürü dünyaya yönelmesi muhtemel bir öfke kültürüdür ve bu kültürün a??r? ucu, dünyan?n y?k?m?na çal??makt?r.

I am utterly alone with myself, I see clearly that from now on I shall always be utterly alone with myself. I am somewhere where neither love nor friendship can reach, I am in hell … I have sinned for a brief while and I am being punished for it, incredibly severely, for a long time! But one should have known, before one sinned, how severe the punishment would be. One should have been warned beforehand, then one would not have sinned …

Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out of control. That is why good people get sick and get hurt as much as anyone.

He'll go to torment, and no mistake," said little Jake.

If I had booked a car service, it would have delivered me to Princeton ten minutes before the meeting. Instead, I chose to save $115, and lost a $125,000 opportunity in the process.

Remember the Butterfly Effect. Tiny cause, huge effect. A

Absolutely every government regulation is enforced by violence. If you've never seen that violence, it's because you've been careful, obedient, or lucky.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

De su decisión dependerá su destino.

Sometimes correct decisions are not good decisions

If a woman was not free, it could be for two reasons. Her lack of freedom could be inflicted, in which case it constituted oppression. Or it could be chosen, in which case it represented a moral fault. In both cases, it was absolute evil.

what's real doesn't always matter. What people think has been done to them can be just as serious as what really happened.

Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head. "You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that. "That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.

Sometimes, she knew, the only difference between poor judgment and a calculated risk was the outcome. In Shar's case, the jury was still out. But she couldn't ignore what he'd learned through his actions.

Fear, without potential mitigating

There is a (slight) chance that I might be going to hell.