Quotes About Consequence

if Eve had had a spade and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that sad business of the apple.

I wish I could see what would have hapenned if I hadn't told. You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. So now there's a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. But I can't see what it looks like.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.

I did hit him for a reason,' he said. 'What you're talking about is a justification. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do. I'm just saying I did it for a reason. My own stupid reason.' I stared at him. 'So what was the reason?' He looked down and shrugged. 'Same reason I do most things. I wanted to see what would happen.

Blood strikes back.

ÚspÄ›ch, který skon?í ve straÅ¡né katastrofÄ›, je nejhorÅ¡í ze vÅ¡ech porážek.

Stop right there, that's exactly where I lost it See that line? I never should've crossed it Stop right there, I never should've said that It's the very moment that I wish that I could take back

Everything that she did or undid, however disparate that looked to an observer with prejudices, was done for what should be done, that is, with courage and without fear of consequences.

Celui qui vient au monde sans rien troubler, ne mérite ni égards, ni patience.

The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything is thereby made more and more 'artificial'…

The fat was in the fire, and the problem was dodging the spatters.

I invite trouble only when I'm paid for it.

He'll listen to me because he has to, or fire me, and he can't fire me because then he would never do any work at all and would eventually starve to death.

I made a choice and I must live with it.

Some things can't be undone.

the true horror of the world: it is that once a thing is done, it can never be undone. A universe of wishing can't uncrush a bug, or unspeak a word, or erase even the tiniest action from the past's ledger. The past is fixed and unalterable, a tyrant, and none of us has any power against it.

Whatever you sow, you reap!

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice." (William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925)

With an utterly foreign sense of desperation, he did something that he'd never, in all his thirty-three years, thought he would do. He tripped her.

He looked up. "Did you just leave them where they were?" Watkins nodded. "I thought we

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can." —Mark Twain

Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end. Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversation .

That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do.