Quotes About Consequence

Not responding is a response.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

As soon as she hit the Send button, she had a spasm of remorse; her interval between action and remorse was diminishing so rapidly that soon she might be all remorse, unable to act at all; which might not be such a bad thing.

His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done.

Taken together, the animals reminded Pip that she was an animal herself; the multitude of shames she'd left behind in Oakland seemed of smaller consequence at Los Volcanes.

For a Catholic, guilt was more than just a feeling. It was the inescapable consequence of sin. It was an objective thing, plainly visible to God.

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.

I bet you're rethinking your decision not to abort me, right around now. It turns out to be so much more painful to wait twenty years for me to do it myself.

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk.

he'd recited the words that Adam speaks to Eve after she's eaten the forbidden fruit. Adam is still unfallen but determined to share Eve's fate.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

Not to have a choice is also a choice.

You have to do something bad to do something good.

I am the one who broke the rule. But I am the one who made the rule you couldn't live with.

Kötü kiÅŸi, kötü eylemlerini keder etmeyen kimsedir.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was.

It wasn't too late to turn around, before I got to the place I couldn't come back from.

The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the public: but

Their education is of little consequence to the public; but the old and diseased among them are supported by hospitals: for begging is a trade unknown in this Empire

that the mistakes committed by ignorance in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and had great abilities to manage, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.

The trouble with free speech is that it insists on living up to its name.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.