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Quotes About Consequence

I think, if you touch me, your hand might fall off or something. Worse things have happened to people who have touched me.
~ Tony Kushner
I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.
~ Tove Jansson
She stood to lose far too much if she gave this little attraction any freedom to grow.
~ Unknown
Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
~ Tryon Edwards
She also set fire to a tall cactus because it was giving her a superior look and she felt like it.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I know exactly who to kill. A freezing shiver rattled down Moon's spine. Sora.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Maybe we should destroy it," Sunny said unexpectedly. They all turned to look at her.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
She'll be all right, Darkstalker thought. A thousand futures dropped away before him as he made his first choice. Futures where his sister joined his quest for power; futures where she fought him and stopped him; futures where they were best friends; futures where one of them killed the other, or vice versa. As Darkstalker folded his talons together, choosing to keep them still for tonight, every possible future with a thrice-moonborn sister disappeared.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Kind of an idiot MudWing move,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
This is already backfiring," Winter muttered.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Keep your mouth shut and don't get in the way." "As if I would!" Fatespeaker said happily, immediately tripping Starflight with her tail.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
But no matter what is going on, there has to be something ultimately at stake. A prize, survival, sanity, success, even peace of mind.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Se ci pensi, quand'è che cominciamo a fare delle distinzioni tra quel che è giusto e quel che è sbagliato? Quando qualcosa ci ferisce o minaccia di farlo.
~ Unknown
That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
~ Patrick O'Brian
If men were to consider what they were at - if if they were to look around them, and reflect upon the cost of life in a universe where prisons, brothels, madhouses, and regiments of men armed and trained to kill other men are so very common - why, I doubt we should see many of these poor mewling little larval victims, so often a present misery to their parents and a future menace to their kind.
~ Patrick O'Brian
they know they are in the Navy – they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' 'You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' 'No, no, it is not quite that, neither.
~ Patrick O'Brian
does it matter?
~ Unknown
If you could not have freedom you could still have vengeance.
~ Paul Bowles
There will come a day of reckoning... All this pleasure will have to be paid for, and it will be terrible.
~ Paul Bowles
Fear… is the most depressing of all the emotions; and it soon induces utter, helpless prostration, as if in consequence of, or in association with, the most violent and prolonged attempts to escape have actually been made.
~ Paul Brown
so, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no idea what I was thinking
~ Paul Feig
The consequence is that Mexico pays "a disproportionate share of the cost of the American gun and drug habits
~ Paul Theroux
The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck
~ Paul Virilio
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.
~ Paul Virilio