Quotes About Consequence

If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.

If you want to screw around, it's your choice and you accept it when you're caught.

Opportunity tends to knock once, then it's gone...temptation, however, likes to stand there and lean on the damn doorbell!

People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

I met his gaze, but nothing else needed to be said. We both knew we were fucked.

Tell them - to cut off his hands and nail them to the Senate door. I told the old fool I'd do it if he ever crossed me again. Nobody can possibly say that I don't keep my word.

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

Never underestimate the ripple effect of one act of obedience. It will never be all for nothing.

But if you always play it safe, it's a safe bet you'll end up sorry.

One bullet can really fuck up your day.

the unintended consequence was to marginalize the blue-collar unions and public officials who had been the pillars of the party structure, and replace them with educated activists tied to single issues or to particular presidential campaigns.

Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don't. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers.

Working a man to death is the same as shooting a man to death," the priest said. "Just a different choice of weapons.

For what? Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?