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Quotes About Consequence

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
~ W. H. Auden
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
~ W. H. Auden
To save your world, you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, asked why?
~ W. H. Auden
Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you. It is not self-righteousness but Christ-righteousness, the righteousness that is by faith—a faith that by renewed dependence upon God releases His divine action to restore the marred image of the invisible God.
~ W. Ian Thomas
Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.
~ W.H. Auden
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
~ W.H. Auden
Drama is based on the Mistake.
~ W.H. Auden
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
~ W.H. Auden
And the truth cannot be hid; Somebody chose their pain, What needn't have happened did.
~ W.H. Auden
After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.
~ W.S. Merwin
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
~ Paul Keres
A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk
~ Unknown
One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.
~ Janet Morris
We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.
~ Matthew Arnold
Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.
~ Philip K. Dick
If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.
~ Ronald Reagan
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
~ Horace
The meaning of a communication is the result you get.
~ Richard Bandler
As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
~ Prince Philip
I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence/ Started not to give a f- and stop fearing the consequence/ Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.
~ Drake
More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.
~ Sophie Scholl
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn