Quotes About Consequence

What happened to Owen was ultimately Luna's fault. Luna accepted blame and would pay off the tab. There was one problem with this unspoken contract: The two parties had very different ideas about the size of the debt.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn really do go back in the same box. In death they are indeed equal. But in life, we are not. In life we are a product of more than our decisions. We are the consequence of how we cope with those decisions, and too often that is fear and guilt. Don't let it be fear and guilt.

So you think long and hard about what you see here today, and where you're headed. But if you run, run fast. Because I'm going to come after you. That's just the kind of bastard I can't seem to help being

the minute he'd said 'yes' to this assignment, Royce had said 'no' to Lauren.

I understood that feeling of regret, the sense that there was a moment when the paths divided and you chose one over the other.

Shit Does'nt Happen, It's Cause and Effects! " You Cause It, & You Endure the Effects! Correct???

The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic laws of physics are comparatively simple in form, they give rise, because they are computationally universal, to systems of enormous complexity.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

And the devil will drag you under By the fancy tie 'round your wicked throat Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down Sit down you're rockin' the boat!

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

This is the reality if you take a stand against the government in Iran.' He looked me in the eye. 'Would you take that risk?' It was a difficult question. I liked to think I was the kind of person who would make a stand, but it was easy for me to say, coming from a democratic country with its unarmed policemen and the reassuring notion of habeas corpus enshrined in law. Taking a stand in Iran was a life or death decision.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature, -- were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so,' Utter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst 'bonos mores,' With a long memorandum of old stories.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

You will be damned if you do.—And you will be damned if you don't [definition of Calvinism].

If that is what happened." Mal comes to her feet. "For your and Frank Horvath's sakes, I hope your decision to not call 911 did not result in a delay that cost her life.

I have always believed that anyone who must violate the law to achieve his purposes must lack either intelligence or imagination, probably both.

It wasn't the time and place. He oughtn't to rush his fences. But she'd waved her arms, and that made her womanly parts jiggle and he could only keep one idea in his head at a time, and in any case, oughts never went down smoothly with him. He was who he was, and that wasn't a good boy. And so down he went, and crushed her sulky little mouth under his.

Procrastination is a form of punishment

Erin wilde inmiddels dat ze niet zo aardig was geweest. Dat krijg je ervan; je werd meteen gestraft.

I'm going to shoot somebody, Maddie said. Sawyer hates when people do that. It's a whole bunch of paperwork.