Quotes About Consequence

There's a choice? Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.

Athera could ill afford the consequence if the Mistwraith that afflicted the world was ever to yield its hold on sunlight.

You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.

a society's fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices.

Elämän laki on niin yksinkertainen: jos ei suosiolla, niin pakolla.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

Punching goblins, replied Sprockett soothingly, while offering short-term relief, has no long-term beneficial value

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.

It occurred to him that perhaps the Dark One had got a bum deal -- Demetrios would have made his own way to hell in the fullness of time, without an Allegro Equipe to take him there.

los hombres no piden perdón: hacen lo que hacen y dicen lo que dicen, y luego se aguantan.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

But he knew that was his own fault. He hadn't asked the right question. Water flows in the channel that is provided for it. The wrong question created the wrong channel.

There was a saying about dust bunnies: by the time you see the teeth, it's too late.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Raça por mim tão amada, Desta feita morrerás!» Júpiter daí a nada Fez-se menos ferrabrás.

As it so often does, an impulsive, daring suddenly - and too late - seemed seriously flawed in its conception and its inability to be retracted.

We'll burn that bridge when we come to it!

Sorry. That is courtesy, right? Custom? Jondalar, what good are words like sorry? It doesn't change anything, it doesn't make me feel any better." He pulled his hand through his hair. She was right. Whatever he had done—and he thought he knew what it was—being sorry didn't help.

My father always says one thing leads to another. It certainly does. I started out to buy a friend a birthday present, and I end up trying to get a factory to go with it....

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

There are different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. She burnt a lot more than the letters that night in the backyard. I don't think she knew. In her head she was still queen, but not my queen any more, not the White Queen any more. Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.