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Quotes About Consequence

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
~ George Henry Lewes
Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.
~ James M. Gavin
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
~ Albert Einstein
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
~ Winston Churchill
Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.
~ Andy Stanley
I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.
~ Johnny Hunt
The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
~ Hindu proverb
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
~ Aeschylus
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Life isn't about plans it's about results.
~ Unknown
Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.
~ Albert Einstein
If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.
~ Lecrae
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.
~ Dave Ramsey
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.
~ Solomon
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
~ William Blake
by the time this hold, the doubling and mirroring, has waned as most reigns of terror do, the signs of his hand, his will, will have irrevocably fallen across so many places.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
What would you have done, reader, who has been able to follow me like the Magician followed me, invisible and ever-watchful and without consequence? *
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The things we say to each other, thinking they are so important to say, and yet later regret, that become a part of you no matter how hard you push them away, even as you can't stop thinking about them.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Jedynym rozwiÄ…zaniem dla Å›rodowiska naturalnego jest zaniedbanie, które wymaga naszego upadku.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
What, if anything, might have made a difference, or if it was always going to happen like this. In this universe. On this day.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
~ Jeffrey Archer