Quotes About Consequence

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he tried and failed.

By any estimate it is certain that nearly half of them were exterminated by the Germans. This was the final consequence and the shattering cost of the aberration which came over the Nazi dictator in his youthful gutter days in Vienna and which he imparted to—or shared with—so many of his German followers.

There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.

Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.

If one death'll stop ten, ain't it better? If two deaths'll save a city?

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

What happened here is decision paralysis. More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan, which in this case was a painful and invasive hip-replacement surgery. This behavior clearly is not rational, but it is human.

What is the nature of life? Life is lines of dominoes falling. One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you're faced with a situation that you didn't see coming, you who thought you were so clever.

Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire.

The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.

I only ask that we think carefully before we act. Let us not, in our anger, do something we will regret later. It is easy to start a bonfire, hard to put it out.

If she had another chance, she thinks, she would do it differently. But chance is a slippery customer, and she can feel Amit's hands growing cold.

But take care, or I may cut those tongues from thy throats for thee." Ouch, thought Billy. That'll hurt.

I could have done something in there to stop it, that first day, before it got too far along. There'd be no stopping it, after that first day. I could have done it, if only I were a different kind of guy. But I'm not. I'm exactly this kind of guy. I'm all I've got, and I never claimed to have anything better to work with. *

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

Repeat the experiment?" Nina echoed. "We almost got ourselves killed today. If you want to repeat that, you can count me out.

What if he did just that? What if he went through the gate?

I didn't follow my heart, Angela. I followed my head. And when it comes down to it, the longing in the heart lingers. Do you want to know the truth?" I nod, though I'm not sure I do. "I wish I had not left. I did what I thought would save me from heartache, but in many ways it kept me from living.

La conséquence logique de la non-valeur de leur travail [aux femmes] est la course au beau mariage.

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

La plus grande chute est celle qu'on fait du haut de l'innocence.

What had been right in 1431 in English Rouen – to secure the girl's salvation by persuading her to abjure her heresy and embrace the loving counsel of the Church – was wrong twenty-five years later, in a kingdom from which God had driven the English with their tails between their legs.