Quotes About Consequence

I won't make excuses for what I did. The truth is that your whole life can change with one split-second decision, and it doesn't matter if you told yourself you'd never do it or if you stepped into the moment with no intention of doing it. All it takes is for that one second of absolute panic when the solution shines right there in front of you, and you grab it... only to have it turn into ash in your hand. There is no excuse for what I did.

Our lips brushed. Then his eyes snapped open and he pulled back fast. I jerked away. "Right. Bad idea. We--" "No." He pointed. "That." I twisted to see a wall of smoke heading straight for us.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

And so, Aldred thought, great ones sin with impunity while lesser men are brutally chastised.

A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good.

In the old days you wouldn't discuss politics at all." "If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

They who live by the sword shall die by the sword. Jesus said, although that verse was not often quoted by the priests of King Edward III's reign. Fiat voluntas tua : They will be done [Latin]

To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.

if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all. Ross Perot

if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all.

Ofrecer resistencia hubiera causado un derramamiento de sangre innecesario, y el resultado final no habría variado.

Un hombre creyó que podía volar, así que saltó de la azotea de un edificio de diez plantas

Aye. But right and wrong don't count much in this world—only in the next.

A man who loses a battle with his king may be forgiven, but a man who wins such a battle is doomed.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.