Quotes About Consequence

Damn, it feels great to hurt idiots.

When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.

You killed Buzzy." "Yeah. I'm sorry." "Don't be sorry. I'm glad you did it.

And if he's found guilty?" "Then his fate will be that of all the ignobles.

It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

Life is not yours to take.

Sometimes the most profound experiences of our lives start with an act so simple and careless that we hardly think about it - like tossing a small stone that causes a massive avalanche.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Today's residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or regulation but of unhidden public policy that explicitly segregated every metropolitan area in the United States.

I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely by a third thought, the last of this familiar sequence, which was, but I'm going to anyway.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

leaving my past is like jumping of a burning buiding. except jumping is a one way trip. You can't change your mind halfway down

You do the math, you expect the trouble.

You try to warn him, you tell him you will want to get inside him, and ruin him, but he doesn't listen.

sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.

Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.

It was dangerous to kill when there wasn't enough reason, because after a while killing became the solution to everything, and when you got to thinking that way you were only one step from the chair.

the early worm is likely to get caught.

We are too willing to reap death to save a hypothetical life.

All the while, my mind reeled with what had happened. I have a hickey. I let Adrian Ivashkov give me a hickey.

How?" I demanded. "How could you have screwed this one up?" "When I got in, they said the manager was on the phone and would be a few minutes. So, I sat down and ordered a drink." This time, I did lean my forehead against the steering wheel. "What did you order?" "A martini." "A martini." I lifted my head. "You ordered a martini before a job interview." "It's a bar, Sage. I figured they'd be cool with it.

What If Following Her Heart Means Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?

What have I done?" I whispered. Jill put her arm around me, but it was Dimitri who spoke. "What you had to.

Who... who are you?' I asked at last. It was true. I had left a body in the park, but seriously, what was I supposed to do? Drag him back to my hotel and tell my bellhop my friend had had too much to drink?