Quotes About Consequence

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

History always catches up with rebels".

History always catches up with rebels.

This is the necessary unavoidable consequence of the fact that, according to Marxist doctrine, you do not consider the possibility of dissent among honest people; either you think as I do, or you are a traitor and must be liquidated.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

There's really no such thing as a right or wrong choice. We don't make decisions. Our decisions make us.

I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents.

Life is what happened when all the 'what-ifs' didn't . . . .

How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and live with the choice you made?

You can keep dividing and dividing and you'll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no

It worked out the way it should have

There's really no such thing as a right or wrong choice. We don't make decisions. Out decisions make us.

If you had the chance, would you change what you did? We haven't rehearsed the answer, and maybe it's the only one that really matters. I turn, so that I am staring square at you; so that you know, all my life, anything I've ever said or buried beneath silence was just for you. If I had the chance, I reply. I'd do it all over again.

Revenge, in theory, throbbed with adrenaline and was clean with conviction. In reality, it was rushing into a house on fire, and forgetting to map out your exit.

Life was a series of ifs—a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.

The first time you make a decision like that, a decision which rubs against all your morals, is the hardest. The second time, though, is not so hard. And that makes you feel a fraction better about the first time. And so on. But you can keep dividing and dividing and you'll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no.

Anger begins with folly and ends with regret-

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

P?rea straniu c? o reacÈ›ie petrecut? într-un volum de dimensiunea unui parameci ar fi putut declanÈ™a sfârÈ™itul lumii. Al Universului. Evident, singura modalitate de a verifica realmente ipoteza era efectuarea experimentului. Aducea într câtva cu testarea funcÈ›ion?rii unei arme prin înc?rcarea ei, introducerea È›evii în gur? È™i ap?sarea pe tr?gaci.

Might as well be hung for a sheep as a goat

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.

This was my problem, and I had to solve it or live with the negative consequences. I chose to solve it.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.