Quotes About Consequence

because of her foolishness

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.

right. She didn't expect him to ever forgive her, wasn't certain she'd ever forgive herself. At the time, she'd had no choice, no options—or at least not any that she could see. In hindsight—

The myriad choices of his fate Set themselves out upon a plate For him to choose What had he to lose

But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.

It was not recklessness when you risked nothing, when what you did made no difference to anyone, not even to yourself.

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy

Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

Hell is the truth seen too late,

And while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.

Hell is the truth seen too late," said Reine-Marie as she poured out more coffee. "Thomas Hobbes.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful.

Life is choice. All day, every day. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. So when I'm observing, that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make.

he wondered if, in his effort to get to safety, he wasn't fleeing from a wreck but causing it.

And thought about tyranny, and murder. And whether it was ever right to kill one for the sake of the many.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that.

You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose?

I mean some can predict the future because they create it," said Rosenblatt. "Oh, not the good things. We can't make someone love us, or even like us. But we can make someone hate us. We can't guarantee we'll be hired for a job, but we can make sure we're fired." He put down his apple cider and stared at Gamache. "We can't be sure we'll win a war, but we can lose one.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

If you have written a clever and conclusive but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, and it will very often never go at all.