Quotes About Consequence

Plant 'if' and 'when' and you will grow 'nothing'.

Somewhere something is good for somebody as well as bad for someone else.

The end of your life is just the start of heaven or hell.

There can be nothing worse for a man when he realize that he married the wrong woman.

Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.

Apparently Fitzgerald hoped to soften the harshness of her reply when he asked her: "Have you killed anybody to get someone out of jail?" With a strange little smile, Cathy turned her head and, looking directly at the jury, replied: "Not yet.

The Bible is bold and honest. It tells you that if you disagree with anything in it, then you are wrong, and God will hold you accountable for your false belief and the false conduct that follows from it.

Actions require words to speak for them, explaining their origins and implications, or else they remain silent.

If I should later come to see that I did wrong, well, then I shall of course be sorry, but as it is I have been unable to see how else I could possibly have acted. When somebody tells me decisively, 'Get out of my house, the sooner the better, in half an hour rather than an hour,' well then, my dear fellow, it doesn't take a quarter of an hour for me to leave, never to return either.

Du kleines Arschloch, sagt eine Stimme, wie kannst du es wagen?, und ich erhalte die Strafe, die ich verdiene. Für die Freude, die ich empfinden würde.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake. Possibly the worst of her whole life.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

Why he wants this child he never says, and she never asks. Obviously the miller's daughter is no more a responsible parent than her father is, for she agrees to the bargain.

Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

She] had a habit of putting things in that way, as though she had accidently set your house on fire and had no choice now but to stand back and watch it burn.

No. My fault. I didn't. Have to. Smoke.

each new decision that a child or an adult makes in a given set of circumstances begins patterns of thought that later create a tremendous impact in his life.