Quotes About Consequence

Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciéndose a ellos.

El ejecutor de una empresa atroz debe imaginar que ya la ha cumplido, debe imponerse un porvenir que sea irrevocable como el pasado.

Nuestros actos prosiguen su camino, Que no conoce término. Maté a mi rey para que Shakespeare Urdiera su tragedia.

Perhaps he meant that there is no fact, however insignificant, that does not involve universal history and the infinite concatenation of cause and effect.

O executor de uma empresa atroz tem de imaginar que já a cumpriu, tem de se impor um futuro que seja irrevogável como o passado.

L'esecutore di un'impresa atroce immagini di averla già compiuta, si imponga un futuro che sia irrevocabile come il passato

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

Just as great valorous deeds are the consequence of swords,' here he paused to snuff the candle with his fingers, 'so great philosophic thoughts are the consequence of pens.

Si Edipo en lugar de hacer morir a la esfinge la hubiera domado y enganchado a su carro para entrar a Tebas, hubiera sido rey sin incesto, sin calamidades y sin exilio.

Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.

You do smart things and stupid things in the thick of a moment.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

When you win, you often lose

the retrospectoscope, that handy tool of the wags and pundits, the conveners of the farce we call M&M—morbidity and mortality conference—will pronounce your decision right or wrong. Life, too, is like that.

I have not forgotten about the REO Speedwagon incident. No more of that. Never.

You only taste your own dignity right before you puke it up.

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fianc'e; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than with the screams of the dying.

All it took was the officer's own silence and weight.