Quotes About Consequence

They need to be punished to feel guilt, and then they're never punished, so they never do.

Which way do we run when we see danger: away from it, or towards it?" "It depends on what the danger is," Helen said. "No. It depends on what is at stake.

El hombre que cabalga sobre los cuernos de un dilema termina con el culo pinchado.

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that Hunslett was to have time for all the sleep in the world.

If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." "Sorry," I admitted. "I've been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it's almost over.

I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back." "You ran away, Katarina." "And now I'm back." "You're still running.

What about you?" he asked. "Are you going to kill me?" Maddie had to think about the answer. "Why would I do that when I just have to get out of the way and let Alaska do it for me?

When I took aim at the very place Amirah had been just seconds before and pulled the trigger, I knew the risk. I knew the cost. And I would do it all over again in a heartbeat if I had to.

given enough rope, eventually, I am bound to hang myself.

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Once something is done it can't be undone. There's no rewind. No going back.

Ik lachte, en dat deed pijn, omdat ik op dat moment al wist dat ik het heel anders zou doen als ik mijn leven maar dertig seconden terug kon draaien. Maar je kunt je leven niet terugdraaien. Dingen die gebeurd zijn, kun je niet ongedaan maken.

Emotion kicked logic's ass. He was going after Quinn.

Aquella noche descubrí algo terrible: uno puede echar su vida por la borda por culpa de una sola palabra.

Cuando uno está destinado a ser culpable, no necesita tener nada que reprocharse. La culpabilidad se abrirá paso de la forma que sea.

El problema es la dimensión kamikaze de mis actos: me destruyo más a mí mismo que a mi objetivo.

KARMA" What goes around comes around.....

Know the mistake of your dcision before your first step.

Think that it was meant for your head, or maybe hers, and as you think this, look at wht it got instead.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.