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Quotes About Consequence

God damn, The Pusher God damn, I say The Pusher I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man.
~ Unknown
Strongest of Oak is the gallows Tighest of knots is the noose Why oh why did I kill that man Now I'll never get loose
~ Unknown
However aware we are that a certain fate cannot be avoided, we cannot help blaming the person who gets that monster to its feet...and leads it into the room.
~ Unknown
There's plenty of symmetry in revenge, but no virtue.
~ Hugh Mackay
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
~ Hulagu Khan
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
~ Iain M. Banks
People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.
~ Iain M. Banks
Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision...
~ Iain M. Banks
The concept of hell and endless torment is popular with those who believe they aren't headed there.
~ Unknown
It's all because of me isn't it? It's all my fault?
~ Unknown
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.
~ Unknown
Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.
~ Unknown
She left the pneumatique at the next stop and went to see what she had done to the world.
~ Unknown
Voices. —You will lose everything. Everything. Everything. —Is this what you really wish? To lose everything you have ever been? —The choice is yours. "And I took it!" he cried to the streaming walls. "I took it!" But he could not remember what it was he had chosen. —He has chosen.
~ Unknown
If she had had a new famulus, or even this poor old smashed famulus, or any famulus at all, she might have never done what she had just done. She could not decide whether that was a good or bad thing.
~ Unknown
But there was this one day when I went out to steal a part for my Porsche—
~ Unknown
Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.
~ Idries Shah
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
~ Idries Shah
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
~ Idries Shah
He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.
~ Idries Shah
Un beso robado no se devuelve fácilmente.
~ Idries Shah
Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.
~ Idries Shah
Was he really looking forward to it? They were usually a bit of anticlimax, these things. Stillit would do him good. Or serve him right
~ Colin Dexter