Quotes About Consequence

There are some things you can't un-fuck.

Firm they might have stood, yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.

Amid the Garden by the Tree of Life,   Remember what I warne thee, shun to taste,   And shun the bitter consequence: for know,   The day thou eat'st thereof, my sole command   Transgrest, inevitably thou shalt dye;   From that day mortal, and this happie State   Shalt loose, expell'd from hence into a World   Of woe and sorrow. Sternly

But of the tree whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith, Amid the garden by the tree of life, Remember what I warn thee. Shun to taste. And shun the bitter consequence. For know, The day thou eatest thereof, my sole command Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die, From that day mortal; and this happy state Shalt lose, expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.

Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write

So it seems to have been with David after his sin with Bathsheba. I doubt not but that before the message of God to him by Nathan, he had unpleasing thoughts of what he had done; but there are not the least footsteps in the story or any of his prayers that he laid it seriously to heart and was humbled for it before. This

Wine giveth the desire but taketh the ability

Just remember, Miller growled, over the radio. Once you ignite the fuse, Mister Satchel Charge is not your friend.

Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn't always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.

Ensign Davis thought, Screw this, I want to live, and swerved to avoid the land worms. But then he tripped and one of the land worms ate his face and he died anyway.

Dirk Moeller didn't know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out.

Well, life is like that sometimes, Isabel said. We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them.

Now if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I need to play Russian roulette with our planet's future with the bullet you've so thoughtfully provided. I hope you don't mind if I don't see you out.

But then he tripped and one of the land worms ate his face and he died anyway.

I strongly suggest not trying that attitude with the crew, either." "Why? Because it would be mean?" "No, because they'll break a butter knife off in your neck.

They didn't mean any harm in it. But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

Listen to me or don't. But if you don't, you'll be dead. And then where will you be? Dead, that's where.

But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.

So if he dies during the jump, it'll be my fault," Wilson said. "If he dies during the jump, I would suggest it would be politic for you to follow him

So you would have me take the job simply to avoid something worse.

I'm going to shoot him twice now. We still need to bring him in alive, I said. I didn't say I was going to kill him, Powell replied. Just that I was going to shoot him twice.

What happens if the plan doesn't work and our ships are shot out of the sky?" I asked. "Well, then I suppose we're fucked, Perry

Maybe that's what's bothering me," I said. "There's no sense of consequence. I just took a living, thinking thing and hurled it into the side of a building. Doing it didn't bother me at all. The fact that it didn't does bother me, Alan. There ought to be consequences to our actions.