Quotes About Consequence

The goddess of Battles visits warriors only once. He who does not grasp her at such a moment never reaches her again.

a letter of the great Duke of Marlborough, in which he said: "To remove a General in the midst of a campaign—that is the mortal stroke.

Each human act has countless causes. The author works to reveal these causes.

It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it is always too late to retreat.

A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.

Sabe que una injusticia descarada duele más que un castigo merecido.

Estas cosas si las pensás, no las hacés, y si las hacés, ¿Ya para qué pensás?

and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

Friar Barnadine: Thou hast committed—Barabas: Fornication—but that was in another country;And besides, the wench is dead.

What's happened, happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing.

Do what is right and be prepared to pay the price.

You didn't always have to give it back. And in that cold, somber chapel, Dan Kelly discovered that there were some things that you could not be forgiven for, and those were the things that you carried into the next life, if there was such a place; and if there was no next life nor any God, the consequence was the same: if you were not forgiven, you would die with regret.

loins were loosed." Don't let the politeness of the translation cause you to miss this point. Belshazzar needed a change of britches.

A SWORD IS NEVER A KILLER, IT IS A TOOL IN THE KILLER'S HANDS." —Seneca

Truth is life. But before you choose to speak it get prepared to lose your life.

And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

I don't believe in trading in your future for a little extra power in the present.

Was death the price of freedom?

Ya. Sudah tiba waktunya bagiku untuk dibunuh! Jika aku yang memimpin pemberontakanmu ini dan gagal, kepalaku akan dipenggal. Engkaupun juga ... begitupun yang lain-lain. Mereka mati ada gantinya, pemimpin tidak. Kalau aku mati, menurutmu siapa yang akan memimpin rakyat, bila datang waktunya nanti?

You know, if you're going to take me aside when I'm behaving badly, I may start behaving worse. Just to get some attention from you." His eyes briefly catch the light and glow gray-green for a moment. "Possibly even some admiration.

If we beat the king ninety and nine times, yet he is king still and so will his posterity be after him; but if the king beat us once, we shall all be hanged, and our posterity made slaves.

A whim did not provide a living.

If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher.