Quotes About Consequence

Strategy 7—Against Your Purity He tries to tempt you toward certain sins, convincing you that you can tolerate them without risking consequence, knowing they'll only wedge distance between you and God (Isa. 59:1–2).

Pugachov sonrió amargamente. —No, ya es tarde para arrepentirse. No habrá perdón para mí. Continuaré lo que he empezado. ¡Quién sabe! ¡A lo mejor lo consigo!

No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.

What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? —

So Miss Curdy said I had to be punished. She gave me a choice of punishments. One: I could come into the gym after school every day and inflate all the basketballs — by mouth — until my head exploded. Or two: I could coach the first-grade soccer team. I chose number two. The wrong choice.

Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.

She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

When giants fought, ants were crushed.

I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.

micheal sighed and closed his eyes for a moment'i'm not sure that was a good idea claire:it will be if you go see her tonight and tell her well watever oh but watch out shes gone all buffy with the stakes and things

I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy.

Remember, losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.

You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of…

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road--the one less traveled by--offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

I love a man who doesn't let go of the leash, even when it leads him to ruin.

Existen infinidad de maneras de forzarte a tomar una decisión. Todo el tiempo hacemos eso: tomar decisiones. Si pensáramos cada vez que tomamos una decisión, nos quedaríamos paralizados. Que palabras deberíamos decir. Hacia donde girar. Que mirar. Que número marcar. Uno tiene que tomar aquellas decisiones que considera importantes y dejar a un lado el resto. Son aquellas ocasiones en las que uno piensa que una de esas opciones podría arruinarlo todo.

And because history cared not at all if the negligent left its missives unread, she insisted on caring.

End justifies the means

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret.

When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and a failure. Her judgement of his work was arrogant. What else of consequence did she ever write? And of the two, who was dead - and who was not?

In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we're dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by our wisdom and our ignorance. In my experience, survival depends on hoping for the best while recognizing that disaster is more likely and that it can't be averted if it can't be imagined.

death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike