Quotes About Consequence

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

So? Bob said. Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved. Bob, I said. You can't just go around killing people. I know. That's why you should do it. No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.

Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.' 'God,' I said. 'I wish .

It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

This is scary. And we're doing it anyway, I said. That makes us brave, right? If we get away with it, I said. If we don't, it just makes us stupid.

Never point a gun at anything you aren't sure you want dead.

What goes round comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around. And sometimes you ARE what's coming around.

And it was all your fault, Harry.

It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.

Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea." "Preemptive I-told-you-sos," I said. "Now I've seen everything.

You can't change what has already happened. But you choose what to do next. Which means that you only cross over to the dark side if you choose to do it.

I held my hand up, frowning. Wait a minute. Where did you say this thing was stolen from? The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist. Father Vincent said. In Northern Italy. I said. He nodded. In Turin, to be exact. He nodded again, his expression reserved. Someone stole the freaking Shroud of Turin ? I demanded. Yes. I settled back in the chair, looking down at the photos again. This changed things. This changed things a lot.

I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time.

Maybe I should have listened to Murphy. Maybe I should have stayed home and played with some nice, safe, forbidden black magic instead.

Crap," I gasped. "I am not going to be known as the wizard who used his death curse thanks to a bunch of bitty nail guns.

They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making.

So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

For all power there is a price.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

This is scary." "And we're doing it anyway," I said. "That makes us brave, right?" "If we get away with it," I said. "If we don't, it just makes us stupid.