Quotes About Consequence

Liberty did not on any account mean license.

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

There was no way I could think it over without a second Calvados. After thinking it over, I decided that the really prudent thing was to go out and buy another bottle.

Habríamos podido salvar al mundo, y habríamos podido salvarlo en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, in einem Augenblick, pero no lo hicimos, bueno, al menos yo no lo he hecho, y el amor no triunfó, lo traicioné...

No es el futuro sino el pasado el que te mata, el que vuelve, el que te atormenta y socava y acaba efectivamente contigo.

The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble—the representation of your choice. That's all that you can control. But not the ripples—those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.

Mensen offeren iets omdat ze iets willen. De Kraaien moet heel graag iets hebben gewild als ze er een hele vallei voor hebben laten afbranden.

Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.

Deep down everyone suspected that Art was unlikely to survive for more than a few days and that any rescue attempt would endanger them all, but what were the alternatives? Abandon him? Stay and watch him die?

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

Little said is soon amended.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Of course we don't have to undertake any of these plans. But if we don't, chances are, sooner or later, we will regret it.

I asked myself in the aftermath of the Siege of Terra whether the so-called victory was worth the cost. Now I wonder if we won at all.

Could it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway.