Quotes About Consequence

He made a mistake, one that would send him to death row and eventually cost him his freedom for life.

Come back to his house, and you'll leave in a hearse.

and exactly twenty-one feet from the ground. From there it fell about nine feet, culminating in a perfect hangman's knot, one that Seth had undoubtedly worked on for some time.

Leave our presence under pain of treason," ordered Mary.

If he hath offended in any sort, we shall exhibit the said David before the lords of Parliament to be punished.

had been "the worst thing" about this cold-blooded deed.

it began to sink in that whoever married her was likely to become king and could make or break their careers.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate its significance.

But his admonition backfired spectacularly; the attempted sermon

epic scale without choosing the ground or the moment carefully enough.

She had done everything possible to prevent Mary's execution until she felt it could no longer be avoided

James V felt a deep psychological blow. He had been militarily and personally humiliated

and arranged for her to have her own household, they had run a calculated risk.

But her decision to cross the border was a catastrophic mistake.

cut to pieces at Flodden Field by the father of the very same English commander.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?

Not every collision course comes as a surprise.

Maybe she could've come back from her suspension and gone back to work at Transcept, as if nothing had happened. But she couldn't. Because something had happened. A lot of somethings. And it meant she could never return to that life, if she even wanted to. And she didn't.

Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?...And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?...EVERYBODY'S got something like that.

Force is the only real and unanswerable power. Oftentimes, beings who haven't been duly punished cannot be reasoned with or edified.

More than once, during the Sicilian campaign, he put the whole operation at serious risk.

In little over a month, a handful of poorly armed and largely untrained men had brought one of the greatest royal houses of Europe to its knees.