Quotes About Consequence

What goes around, comes around Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Quod circumvehitur, revehitur.

Spencer wanted to defend his actions but knew that anything he'd say would sound hollow. Goose bumps rose on his skin. He felt as if he were shrinking before Winston, soluble in his own bullshit, his body bubbling and floating toward the sky in tiny pieces like an antacid tablet dissolving into the night. Before disappearing completely, he turned to leave.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Oh no. We've had to do some extreme things to save the world—" "Yeah, we're going to have to read the comments.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline.

That's the fallacy. Just because X happens and then Y happens, it doesn't mean that X caused Y.

No way. He said if I went to bed with him, he'd name me in his will. So I did it, and now, guess what, he's dead." "Congratulations." "No. Read it! Paragraph seventeen." She thrust the document in front of Steve's eyes, and he read aloud. "'Finally, I promised Ms. Gina Capretto that I would name her in my will. Hello, Gina.

Fate was the issue, if anything; not guilt.

Anger isn't harmful, it's what we do with anger that causes problems.

What one is muddled about may well be the consequence of one's specific relation to society, politics, and history.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

Heads, you win. Tails, he loses.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.

The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on a wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

You've done it now, haven't you? It's too late to take anything back and you wouldn't anyway. You need to remember that later, when you see your wife and want to die for hurting her. Remember no one made you do anything. It's never anyone but you who does anything, and for that reason alone you shouldn't be sorry

There's so much to lose." "There always is," she said. I sighed and reached for another biscuit. "Are you always this wise, Ruth?" "Only when it comes to other people's lives.

The one who dares a Lion should be prepared to die by its claws!