Quotes About Consequence

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

Yesterday's happenings are the reasons of Today's situation.

how the institutions of Western Europe diverged from those in Eastern Europe and then how those of England diverged from those in the rest of Western Europe. This was a consequence of small institutional differences, mostly resulting from institutional drift interacting with critical junctures.

Tropical diseases obviously cause much suffering and high rates of infant mortality in Africa, but they are not the reason Africa is poor. Disease is largely a consequence of poverty and of governments being unable or unwilling to undertake the public health measures necessary to eradicate them.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Gli eventi chiave del passato non possono essere cambiati, ma le persone coinvolte si. Evanna mi aveva detto che se fosse tornata indietro e avesse ucciso Adolf Hitler, l'universo l'avrebbe rimpiazzato con qualcun'altro. Gli eventi fondamentali della seconda guerra mondiale si sarebbero verificati con le stesse modalità, scatenati però da una figura differente. [...] Quindi non potevo modificare il corso della storia intorno a me, ma potevo togliermi di mezzo.

If you follow Harkat, you might never return. Think seriously about this. If you go with Harkat and die, you won't be here to face Steve Leonard when the time comes, and your absence might have terrible repercussions for vampires everywhere. Is your short, grey-skinned friend worth such an enormous risk? I didn't have to think twice about that. Yes, I answered simply, and stepped through into unnatural, otherworldly greyness.

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with

Morelli shook his battered head. "I don't apologize for what I do—people've got to take it or leave it—but I don't mind telling you I'm sorry I lost my noodle and cracked down on you and I hope it ain't bothering you much and if there's anything I can do to square it I—

I often cannot believe the things I do.

Wars] can come in different shapes and guises, but always wars come in increments. I am convinced there are steps, and that once these events are set in motion, they are virtually impossible to reverse. There were other steps in the country's stumble toward war, and I remember these days clearly now. But again, at the time I did not recognize these days as such, not as steps but as days like any others.

Die Lage ist kritisch, und du bist in der einzigartigen Position, Einfluss auf sehr bedeutsame historische Ereignisse zu nehmen. Der Moment ist da. Der Moment, an dem geschichtliche Weichen gestellt werden. Stell dir vor, du hättest etwas tun können, ehe Hitler Kanzler wurde. Ehe Stalin Osteuropa annektierte. Wir sind drauf und dran, ein weiteres sehr hungriges, sehr böses Reich zu erschaffen, Mae. Verstehst du das?

Rule #9: You're unlikely to regret much of what you don't say.

An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. —Sydney J. Harris

In fact, something always leads to something else.

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

discussion. Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision. And decisions have ramifications