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Quotes About Consequence

And Sam—what did he do? He obeyed her, I should like to be sorry for him. But obedience was not a lover's part here. He hesitated, the golden moment hung hovering, the conductor cried "All aboard!" the train went, and there on the platform stood obedient Sam, with his golden moment gone like a butterfly.
~ Owen Wister
Folk och härar han utplånar med sin vredes svärd. Domens tunga klockor dånar över mänskans värld.
~ Par Lagerkvist
Instead of unthinkingly rushing into action, we can ask ourselves: Do I really want to do this? Is anybody going to be hurt by this? Will I like having done this?
~ Unknown
They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king." "That must have hurt," Oates said. Umber pinched the bridge of his nose. "Hubris means arrogance, you great buffoon.
~ Unknown
But from each crime are born bulletsthat will one day seek out in youwhere the heart lies.
~ Pablo Neruda
Rodolfo, su hijo, trató de retenerlo, Reyes se zafó. «La suerte está echada», dicen que dijo, y puso su caballo al trote; «por imprudente y engreído», diría Mondragón más tarde.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Laura hated to lie, but she was pretty sure she'd hate prison more.
~ Pamela Clare
If it was true that men made their own hell on earth, then he'd certainly found his.
~ Pamela Clare
What if this had been caused by your inattention?
~ Unknown
Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.
~ Pat Buchanan
The Kid's career of crime was not the outgrowth of an evil disposition, nor was it caused by unchecked youthful indiscretions; it was the result of untoward, unfortunate circumstances acting upon a bold, reckless, ungoverned and ungovernable spirit, which no physical restraint could check, no danger appal, and no power less potent than death could conquer.
~ Unknown
Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.
~ Patricia Briggs
If you don't stop playing with that dress, I'm going to rip it right off of you, and we won't be heading for dinner.
~ Patricia Briggs
I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries, but pretty sure wasn't good enough, so I used a hammer.
~ Patricia Briggs
Maia was either going to grow up to rule the world or loose a planetwide plague upon the land. Maybe both.
~ Patricia Briggs
Just because something is dangerous does not make it evil. (Adam)
~ Patricia Briggs
You should quit worrying about him and start worrying about how you are going to deal with accepting the situation you got yourself into.
~ Patricia Briggs
Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.
~ Patricia Briggs
I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
I don't mean to make you mad, I just keep doing it by accident.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Un simple clic; no hace falta nada más para cambiar una vida. A veces para mejor. A veces para mucho peor. Pero nunca lo pensamos. Hacemos clic y ya está.
~ Patrick Carman
It was time to lower the boom.
~ Patrick Carman
I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.
~ Patrick Carman