Quotes About Consequence

The thing about bad decisions is that they don't feel like bad decisions when you're making them. They feel like the obvious choice, the of-course-that-makes-sense move. They feel, somehow, inevitable.

mom about the fight, and he'd be grounded or worse. Maybe his mom wouldn't even give him his Christmas

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

If I am guilty, said the Earl, may this bread choke me when I eat it! Then he put the bread into his mouth and swallowed it, and it choked him, and he died. (Chapter XII)

Sometimes what I did five minutes ago scared the fuck out of me five minutes later.

He glanced at Flat Finn, who was positioned in one corner of the room, facing the wall. "What is Flat Finn doing? If he's urinating on the floor, you're cleaning it up." … "Is he in trouble? He has to stand in the corner and think about what he's done?

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

Little late for that now. I don't think an 'Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds' will work to get me out of this. (Devyn)

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

All you do out of selfish reasons is a waste

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

Fear makes you do stupid things.

Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

i will live by the gun and die by the gun

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.

If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.

là où il n'y a pas de choix, il n'y a pas non plus de place pour une vie morale quelconque.

Comment se réjouir de la victoire sur un ennemi hideux si pour le vaincre il a fallu devenir comme lui? ("La peur des barbares")

Nature's laws know no reward, only punishment. The reward is only that you are in harmony with nature.