Quotes About Consequence

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

There is no avoidance in delay.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

There was no other explanation for such an illness in a man otherwise so young and fit. It was the consequence of failing to find the ruthlessness to take what he wanted instead of capitulating to what he should do.

Nothing would be the same for any woman in this country again. From this time onward no wife, however obedient, however loving, would be safe. For everyone would know that if a wife such as Queen Katherine of England could be put aside for no reason, then any wife could be put aside.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

Il vaut mieux se taire et passer pour un con plutôt que de parler et de ne laisser aucun doute sur le sujet.

Wealth and power at the expense of nature were an inevitably lethal cancer. But there seemed to be no gentle way to convince cancer to practice moderation.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

A los amantes les llega el arrepentimiento del bien que hayan podido hacer, tan pronto como se les aplaca su deseo.

SOCRATES: First, then, let us consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the suffering in the consequent pain: Do the injurers suffer more than the injured? POLUS: No, Socrates; certainly not.

I suspected later that I might actually saved lives by killing some of them.