Quotes About Consequence

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

In terms of sealing your fate, there's no difference between turning right on a whim and turning right because you've come to some momentous resolve. Either way, it can't be undone.

Once you've given in to that whim, your destiny is decided. There's no such thing as 'seeing what happens' in this life. To do something just to see what happens is exactly the same as just plain doing it.

Me? Are you kidding? I'm going to Hell.

There's no such thing as 'seeing what happens' in this life. To do something just to see what happens is exactly the same as just plain doing it.

Where waste occurs, want will follow

But there are times when one man's sense of justice may tear apart the peaceful domestic lives of other people.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Care, says the proverb, once killed a cat. It may be so, but it has killed never another.

Why are we so terrified for God to speak to us? It is because we know that when God speaks we must either do what He asks or tell Him we will not obey.

And everything else in your life will be held in temporary suspension until you make a decision.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Cowardice causes blindness.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

So we, in thoughtless play, twist the first gleaming and silky threads of the fatal cord which will cling about our necks, fastened beyond hope of release, as long as our lives shall last!

When he had once determined on a thing he never looked back; sometimes it had been better for him if he had. Yet, in the long run, I have known more mischief done by indecision of character than anything else in the world, and he is safe to be the strongest and stoutest-hearted who never looks back, whether he has determined on quitting Sodom or on staying in it The evil lies in hasty judgment, not in prompt action.

Delay is a great procuress.

The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.

The result justifies the deed.