Quotes About Consequence

She looked at her big hand, red now. Men's blood. She had killed a man; more than one man. The world looked no different, but she felt different in it, as though it had tilted on its axis and the line of stars had changed.

The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

Die Götter strafen, indem sie die Dinge ihrer Bedeutung berauben.

Each time you perform a positive action, it is like depositing money into your karmic bank account. Each time you do something hurtful or negative, it is like writing a check from that bank account. The goal is to build up as much karmic currency as possible in order to ensure your current and future lifetimes will be filled with positive, happy energy.

If you do something just because of how you feel that is not a good action at all.

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.

What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

It must be noted that this Person of Consequence had only lately become a person of consequence, and until recently had been a person of no consequence. Though, indeed, his position even now was not reckoned of consequence in comparison with others of still greater consequence.

in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.

But, in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.

The way I feel about suicide is, I like knowing it's there. I like having it as an option. Because if I'm going to kill myself, then nothing really matters, so I might as well stick around for one more day. Just to see what happens. Out of curiosity. If I'm going to die anyway, then nothing is of particular consequence, so why not see what happens next? That way all I have to do is live until tomorrow. I know I can always handle one more day.

Harm could be wrought by inaction as much as action. And

I made the choice, but it was also fate.

Just because two things happen in sequence, doesn't mean there's a casual relationship

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

Then the Warden said, "Do you have anything you'd like to say?" and Gary looked up at the ceiling and hesitated, then said, "Let's do it." That was it.

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynamak istiyor insan, bir yandan da k?l?na zarar gelsin istemiyor. Küçük oyunlar istemiyorum albay?m.

It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.

If I was to live, if others were to live, he must live. I didn't dare test the paradox.

either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow

But the truth is that anyone who feels Anger, and does not take action, merely spreads the infection.

A dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State.

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.