Quotes About Consequence

She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.

I have learned that however strong the craving gets the guilt afterwards will be stronger.

in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

She remembered something Mrs Elm had told her in the Midnight Library. 'You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try .

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?' 'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too. Now, what life do you want to choose next?

Pi?manl?klar?n? telafi etme ?ans?n olsayd?, baz? konularda farkl? davran?r m?yd?n?

That excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives'.

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation.

Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome'.

It just shows you, doesn't it?' 'Shows me what?' 'Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

You can choose choices but not outcomes. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

We do not what we ought;What we ought not, we do;And lean upon the thoughtThat chance will bring us through.

Sin is the death of the soul.

Those that are not awakened by the judgments of God upon others, but persist in their defiance of heaven, are ripening apace for the like judgments upon themselves

The greatest sign of God's displeasure against any person or people is his taking his law from them.

As men deal with God's people, let them expect to be themselves dealt with; with the froward he will wrestle.

Given a few days to contemplate it, the firing on Fort Sumter had cut through what had been a tangle of painful questions and a thicket obscuring who bore responsibility for thrusting them on the country.

The end must justify the means.

The ends must justify the means.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?