Quotes About Consequence

You have to choose between the past and the present, and there really is no choice, Faye, it's a no-brainer. You can't live in both, and if you don't choose between the past and the present, then one day that choice may be made for you, and you may not like the way it goes.

He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage." "Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!" "Her freedom!" "I think her much at liberty.

Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.

You can't undo actions with words.

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

A gun gives you the body, not the bird.

He sat there staring down into the descending darkness, his thoughts wildly mixed and uncertain. For the moment he knew only one thing; from this night forwards he would never be able to think of Jane Hudson or her sister without experiencing all over again the same awful retching sickness that he felt now.

We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

Freedom gives you everything you need to fail on a monumental scale.

met a kid who was cuffed to the door handle of a police car outside the gig. He was there early to catch soundcheck and the cop busted him drinking a beer in the parking lot. I hung out with the guy and gave him some water. It was strange to be talking with this guy who was standing in the sun tied to a car. I guess the pig figured he was teaching him a lesson. That taught me plenty.

A sin is two sins when it is defended.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn't than end up wishing I had.

For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.

The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and recipient, are those of which he does not see the results.

Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the event, but the event had to take place simply because it had to take place.

Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened.

If the good has a cause, it is no longer the good; if it has a consequence - a reward - it is also not the good. Therefore the good is outside the chain of cause and effect.

If goodness has a cause, it is no longer goodness. If it has a consequence, a reward, it is also not goodness. Therefore, goodness is beyond the chain of cause and effect. It is exactly this that I know and that we all know. What greater miracle could there be than that?

Se detuvo y contempló las copas de los álamos, mecidas por el viento,con sus hojas mojadas y relucientes bajo el sol frío, y comprendió que no la perdonarían, que todo el mundo sería inmisericorde con ella,como ese cielo y ese follaje.

Where the legs have gone the hind legs must follow