Quotes About Consequence

When a faith stubbornly maintained comes into contact with learning, the product of that encounter is always something magnificent, whether it be for good or ill.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

Extinction is not an event, it is a chain reaction!

Father, what are you to do now?"Triton's sneer grew scarier. "She broke the law." turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. "She must die.

Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.

He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible.He'd been wrong.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?

It is what we fear that happens to us.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

Fear is choosing the safe course