Quotes About Consequence

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

You really don't throw a ministerial job away lightly.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

Calcifer, Sophie said, I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you? It would if anyone else broke it, Calcifer said hoarsely. That's why I asked you to do it.

Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the same anymore....

So you eat them. And don't try chucking them away. I'll know. I empty the bins.

God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it's worth it.

the price they must pay for escaping their destiny.

If you have compassion and are imbued with the spirit of the Way, it is of no consequence to be criticized, even reviled, by the ignorant. But if you lack the spirit of the Way, you should be wary of being thought of by others as having the Way.

Choice is a subtle form of disease.

Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory." "Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.

To know and not to act is not to know

This was your fatal flaw–you always had a backup plan. You were never willing to risk everything.

You are asking me to give up my sword? -I am. -Then I shall be swordless. Think what that means.

Simply put, we must show people the cost of not doing business with us.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

To do this, we must define the stakes. What's at stake in the customer's story if they do or do not choose to do business with us? If we've not defined the stakes, we've not made the story interesting.

What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares. Will the hero disarm the bomb, or will people be killed? Will the guy get the girl, or will he be lonely and filled with self-doubt? These are the kinds of questions in the minds of a story-hungry audience.

Stories live and die on a single question: What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares.

If there is nothing at stake in a story, there is no story. Likewise, if there's nothing at stake in whether or not I buy your product, I'm not going to buy your product. After all, why should I?