Quotes About Consequence

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Y un juego vil que no hay que jugarlo a ciegas, pues juegas cien veces, mil, y de las mil, ves febril que o te pasas o no llegas. Y el no llegar da dolor, pues indica que mal tasas y eres del otro deudor. Mas ¡ay de ti si te pasas! ¡Si te pasas es peor!

I was alone with myself, and we watched each other with steady, cold, inward eyes: the past and its consequence, the reality and its insubordinate dream.

For the want of a nail a horseshoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; for the want of a horse the rider was lost; for the want of a rider the battle was lost; for the want of a battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the lack of a horseshoe nail.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

David's passion was turned toward Bathshcba, which resulted in an affair.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. He

What a torture to hear that a life had been available to me that I had not been man enough to live.

The Army and Navy Journal labeled the latest raids simply "one more chapter in the old volume," the result of alternately feeding and fighting the tribes. "We go to them Janus-faced. One of our hands holds the rifle and the other the peace-pipe, and we blaze away with both instruments at the same time. The chief consequence is a great smoke—and there it ends.

He could leave the land in ruins and remain beloved. He had made history. He was the end of history.

Often to do what's right you first have to do what's wrong.

No recordarán la historia, ni actuarán en consecuencia, a menos que su solución final los deje hipnotizados.

This was a rule I had discovered about her. Confessing to minor violations could lead to a reword of a sort.

But put yourself in my position and think logically, and you yourself will come to the conclusion that you cannot act differently because the number of the portion that can be saved is much larger than the part that must be surrendered.

One answer to the transitory nature of imperial rule, in short, is that there is a Newtonian third law of empires. The exercise of imperial power generates an opposite and equal reaction among those affected by it, until they so reorganize themselves as to blunt the imperial edge.

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

Those who write where many read, and speak where many listen, had best be careful what they say. Someone is bound to take them seriously, and it really is no good pretending that you didn't know this.

The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ëYou must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.í”

“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”