Quotes About Consequence

Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, Whichever you do you will repent it

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

Sissy tilted her chair back so far I was sure she'd fall on her head any second. Not that I cared. Maybe she'd leave if she hurt herself.

Maybe now it was I who would become the assassin.

My breaths shuddered, still hot in my chest. I knew I had made a big mistake, but it was a glorious one, and I wanted to make it over and over again. But there was something in his eyes, something genuine and earnest and true that made me pause. This was more than just making the best of it, this was something taking root, a seed being planted. But it was a seed that couldn't be planted.

It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.

She leaned closer and said, "Let's just call this a friendly warning. If you hurt my brother, I'll make sure that you regret it.

They'll pay for this. All of it. I promise. One day they'll pay.

what's fate to you, opal? she asks. opal leans back, too. oh, lots of things. lots and lots of things all pushed up against each other that makes something else happen. so much pushing it just can't happen any other way - unless you push back to make it not.

Seeing Malich dead was suddenly a very small victory. The satisfaction trickled away, like his blood across the floor. His death only gave me an ending-it didn´t give back what had been taken.

Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn't love it but because it is not afraid of it.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

There is no alarm clock like embarassment.

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,

Justice, when carried to its final conclusion, often results in punishment, conflict, revenge and even war.

No podemos volver jamás sobre nuestros actos pasados, ni siquiera con un reloj en el corazón.

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've doing something awful. And your life is changed forever.

It was so easy. A slight curl of his right pointer finger and a man's life was gone forever.

Why, oh why had he taken up Debbie's offer of a free personal training session, and today of all days? There was no way he was going to get ripped abs by this evening, and the muscles he suspected he'd torn in his lower back were hardly the same thing.

You watched it! You can't unwatch it!

You can choose choices but not outcomes.

Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes.