Quotes About Consequence

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

To the police, Lily said [speaking of five murders], these five brutal murders are less than coincidence. One of them told me, 'There's no conspiracy, Lily. It's just life.' How do they come to think this way--that death is life? That unnatural death and murder are somehow a natural part of life?

I believed suddenly not merely in evil as a necessary antagonist in movies and books—bad guys and boogeymen—not merely in evil as the consequence of parental rejection or parental indulgence or social injustice, but in Evil as a presence alive in the world.

The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you're playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.

The trouble with the what-if game was that once you began to play it, you couldn't just quit whenever you wanted. From one what-if grew another.

Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul.

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.

If someone had killed Hamlet in the first act, a lot more people would've been alive at the end.

The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw.

On the one hand, the attorney general, Tio Barbizon, now owed him a favor. On the other hand, if this situation couldn't be contained and if it blew up on them, Hayden might suffer some damage to his image for having acceded so quickly to Barbizon's request. What

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

The past cannot be redeemed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is.

Once a weapon was drawn, it was more likely to be used, and not always as wisely as you might expect to use it.

Now I know how deep my anger can cut…and I wish to hell I didn't.

History alone looks upon war as a grand achievement; all else look upon it as a dreadful last resort.

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Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them. Coronado: Stories

In his time on earth, he'd learned one truth above all else when it came to power—those who lost it usually didn't see it vanishing until it was already gone.

I can't think of one reason big enough for them to lie and small enough for it not to matter.

She leaps into dark waters and then complains about the depth but blames me for the leaping").

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed" (Genesis 9:6; emphasis added).

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.