Quotes About Consequence

said. "That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it's done that too.

Sure seems that way," Zech said. "That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it's done that too.

Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell ; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example . If this be treason, make the most of it.

Virtue will slumber. The wicked will be continually watching. Consequently, you will be undone.

The way to take ownership is to realize that everything that happens is a consequence of your free will.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do . A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

And then I hear the terrible, terrible scream that of course is the girl getting caught and that's the choice made, ain't it?

What if it'd been Simone down there instead of Todd?" I say. And Simone is all over his Noise, his deep feelings for her, feelings I don't think are returned. "You're right," he says, "I don't know. I hope I'd make the right choice, but Viola it is a choice. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

You imagine the devil, you make the devil.

So Malcolm stepped out of the trees and met Nelson, and the fate of billions was changed.

Pero un cuchillo no es solamente un objeto, ¿verdad? Es una elección entre alternativas. Sí o no, cortar o no cortar, matar o no matar. Un cuchillo recoge la decisión que tomes y la convierte en un hecho real, tangible, que ya no puede remediarse.

And everything I might have been, the different futures I might have taken, all my different lives and deaths that existed in their endless possibilities were extinguished in a single repetition of her three words. "You will hunt." When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen? And all that might have been was long, long gone.

Do you know what vengence is, Tim? It is a dark mirror in which we cannot see ourselves.

How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie, or a fruit pie?

Then he turned it the third time, and the boy's ass fell off.

So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing.

I knew it to be good advice, and ignored it

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Chronicler frowned. "You said yourself that there was nothing you could have done." "I could have," Kvothe said seriously, "and I didn't. I made my choice and I regret it to this day. Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

Quite impressive, to unbind what I have wrought with nothing more than blood.

Por muy atractiva que parezca una cosa, tienes que valorar los riesgos que corres. Cuánto lo deseas, cuánto estás dispuesto a quemarte.