Quotes About Consequence

Besides, they'll all know soon enough, won't they? That I'm your mistress?" He snorted, hitting the bed with one arm as he sprawled. She raised a delicate eyebrow. "That is what you want, isn't it?" "I can't have what I want." "Can't you?" Her voice was light, nearly careless. "But you're the Duke of Wakefield, one of the most powerful men in England.

It was the beginning of that long bifurcation that became my life: Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. I thought later how simply and quickly they had introduced that concept to me, as easily as breaking a little finger.

Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.

Now it was too late. That could never happen. His future lay before him, one bleak stretch of unpleasant duty, to the end of his days.

One thing led to another, and we were a trifle late going down for dinner.

Very early in my life it was already too late.

Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.

Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

Did you ever feel, Hugh, that it might be better to let even ill alone, wondered Cadfael ruefully, rather than let loose worse?

Power beyond reason created a lasting irrationality.

Archduke Ferdinand of Austria had been assassinated on June 28

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.

I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

I dare not always touch her, lest the kiss leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, brief bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

It is wiser to abstain then to repent.

A missed chance, a ruined life.

So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.

I couldn't help but think hard about what you're supposed to do when the facts seem to be leading you into danger.

We're the result of the choices we make everyday, and this is my choice.

why don't they lift their weight and see what's flattened underneath it?

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Leo! Houd hem tegen! ... Leo. O, Leo, wat heb ik gedaan? - Alice

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," Cadvan said. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice