Quotes About Consequence

E' tutto collegato. Quello che accade ora agli animali, succederà in seguito all'uomo

I will tell you a terrible secret: language is punishment. Language must encompass all things and in it all things must again transpire according to guilt and the degree of guilt.

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

It was a frightening thing to do, but if one did nothing -- well, that was frightening too.

This thing of Beauty is a Guilt forever.

Taking a life diminishes the taker. - Kadar den Arnaud

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Every passion or wicked thought, every affliction or crime, every rebellion or catastrophe necessarily casts its shadow before it long before it manifests itself in real life.

No," Merret said, casting me a serious considering look. "no, it is never you alone, yet think how often you have been the pebble that begins the avalanche.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

We live in a country where causes are always seen but never effects.

I must, however, bear in mind that my every move to erase previous events provokes a rain of new events, which complicate the situation worse than before and which I will then, in their turn, have to try to erase.

dark side took over, and things got…out of hand. He always felt bad afterward. But while Martin

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

Mr. President, I have blood on my hands.

Damn! I thought, furious that even after expending my only rocket, I couldn't get the machine pistol; I was right back where I started, except one rocket lighter. I had squandered my gift! I felt like the guy who found a lamp that would grant one wish, and he says, "Jeez, I wish I knew what to wish for." I

Karmic reward from the past" refers to our present life state, which is the result of past actions or causes created through our own words, thoughts, and deeds.

The world's repeatedly saved by people whether right or wrong just goddammit not wanting to get into it.

if we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.

Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, "Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity." We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.