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Quotes About Consequence

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.
~ Richelle Mead
For a moment, staring down and realizing what I'd just done, I wanted to throw myself in after him, because surely there was no way I could go on living now.
~ Richelle Mead
I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.
~ Richelle Mead
Most good things come with the risk of something bad.
~ Richelle Mead
Where are you going?" he asked. "To break someone's heart," I replied.
~ Richelle Mead
Adrian. He was the reason I was able to survive in this prison. And he was also the reason I was here in the first place.
~ Richelle Mead
He stepped forward and punched Dorian in the face, hard enough that I heard a thwack. "Ow," moaned Dorian, wincing from the pain. "My greatest asset.
~ Richelle Mead
What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron
~ Richelle Mead
No," I said softly, feeling all the energy run out of me. I was tired. So, so tired. "I don't want a war. I...I can't unleash something like that." Then, for the first time so far, Dorian spoke. "I can," he said.
~ Richelle Mead
Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.
~ Richelle Mead
History's like that. There are wars, and unfortunately, in the end, who wins and who loses is more important than who's right or wrong.
~ Richelle Mead
She shook her head and almost laughed. 'My reaction was a little stronger than 'crap,' Rose. Do you have any idea what you've done?
~ Richelle Mead
You want to feel sorry for him, but he was his own undoing.
~ Ridley Pearson
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
~ Rita Mae Brown
PAST CLAWS AND EFFECT
~ Rita Mae Brown
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
~ Roald Dahl
Je n'approuve pas le meurtre, dit la reine. - Mais ce sont eux-mêmes des meurtriers, fit remarquer le chef de l'armée de terre. - Ce n'est pas une raison pour suivre leur exemple, répliqua la reine, ce ne sont pas deux torts conjugués qui feront valoir le bon droit. - Et deux bons droits ne font pas un bon gauche! s'exclama le BGG.
~ Roald Dahl
This is what happens when good people do nothing.
~ Rob Schenck
Thank you' ranks just below 4You ruined my life' and just above 'When I get my hands on you.
~ Rob Thomas
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
However, you are just as dead if you buy a farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
every choice must be paid for.
~ Robert A. Heinlein