Quotes About Consequence

Leave now and live, or stay here and die. Your choice.

charged with committing, or you can

Obsessions never count the cost.

You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor.

When I didn't do 'Runaround Sue' on the 'Ed Sullivan Show,' for example, I didn't listen to my inner voice. I should have.

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

I'll live with whatever sentence I'll get in the end - I'll just finish my book.

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

There's some bells you can't unring.

The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. And in doing so I was a party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long time.

Whatever motivated him, Lopsang's decision to tow a client didn't seem like a particularly serious mistake at the time. But it would end up being one of many little things—a slow accrual, compounding steadily and imperceptibly toward critical mass.

He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon.

place in the expedition pecking order. "I was definitely considered the third guide," he acknowledged after the expedition, "so I tried not to be too pushy. As a consequence, I didn't always speak up when maybe I should have, and now I kick myself for it.

In a twenty-first-century hour when the presidency has more in common with reality television or professional wrestling, it's useful to recall how the most consequential of our past presidents have unified and inspired with conscious dignity and conscientious efficiency.

Dan, what people want is results. That's what matters.' " Bush's discomfort with the rhetorical requirements of his office was one of his cardinal weaknesses as a president.

What we do, when we fuck up, we don't lose our job. We lose our vocation.