Quotes About Consequence

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

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

Fraser closed his eyes for an instant, frowning, then opened them again. "I see," he said, very dry. "So was I to kill him, ye'd be obliged to fight me? And if he killed me, ye'd fight him? And should we kill each other, what then?" "I suppose I'd call a surgeon to dispose of your bodies and then commit suicide," Grey said, a little testily. "But let us not be rhetorical.

Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good.

Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

Sometimes our best actions result in things that are most regrettable. And yet you could not have acted otherwise.

D'accordo, sibilai tra i denti, mentre flettevo con cautela la mano destra ancora formicolante. Cos'è che si deve fare, quando si colpisce un osso e si perde il coltello? Esiste una procedura fissa in questi casi? Oh, aye, rispose Rupert, sghignazzando. Tiri fuori la pistola con la sinistra e lo fai secco.

It is easier to kill someone to save your own life than it is to hurt someone to save theirs.

Don't tell me you didn't think of that when you decided to come here.

Bazen en piÅŸmanl?k duyaca??m?z hareketler en iyi sonuçlar? doÄŸururlar.

Do what must be done, and then deal with the consequences.

No, there are a good many arguments ye might make about that, but in the end, such choices come down to one: You kill when ye must, and ye live with it after. I remember the face of every man I've killed, and always will. But the fact remains, I am alive and they are not, and that is my only justification, whether it be right or no.

And while I would, if pushed, deny absolutely that it was my fault, it was undeniably on my account.

I've always known I've lived a life different from other men. One day I turned around and looked back and saw that each step I'd taken was a choice. A choice between right and wrong, between love and hate. Sometimes between life and death. And the sum of those choices becomes your life.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

Every person's every action has an effect.

War is just an effect, not a cause.

No action is without its side effects.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it. Could I have stopped it? I don't know. The truth is, I didn't want to.

I didn't throw the paper away. Maybe I should have. Oh, the things you know in retrospect.

Starting a war is in our hands, it is easy. But ending a war, that is not in our hands and no one knows what will happen.