Quotes About Consequence

I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.

You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her." Niall turned his gaze to Irial. "What would you do?" "Blind myself, if you were foolish enough to use those words.

to not act is a choice too

For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.

Take some more advice from Dr. Micah. Don't give women too much time to think. It never ends up good for either of you.

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

Besides, wars never begin. When we awaken to them, we realise they started long ago.

Confirmando o ditado: a vingança não se serve. apenas serve.

Risk is the increased consequence of failure.

it was one of those cases I found so common later in government, where the risk of acting was far less than the risk of doing nothing

Trickster," he said, sniffing the boy. "Love will be the end of you.

No one wanted to get sent to Oklahoma, and that was exactly what would happen to you if you got out of line

Superficially, Edit and Pray seems like "working with care," a very professional thing to do. The "care" that you take is right there at the forefront, and you expend extra care when the changes are very invasive because much more can go wrong. But safety isn't solely a function of care.

Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

word once spoken cannot be taken back", she went on with quiet intensity. "It goes out into the world. It changes the world. You must take greater care with your words.

To suggest that the lack of personal initiative is the source, and not the consequence, of poverty, is to confuse cause and effect" (p. 206).

Indignation principis mors est. the anger of the prince, means death.

It isn't action, he suspects, that usually lands a thief in prison. It's hesitation.

So there had better be a good damned reason for [war], because even if it is good, it is still damned.

God is gonna get ya

When words fail, the hammer drops, living can never be its own excuse.

Weak men create hard times.

the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. What matters is the motive, and the motive must be of a certain kind. What matters is doing the right thing because it's right, not for some ulterior motive.