Quotes About Consequence

There are times in world history when it is far wiser to act than to hesitate," and "there is some risk involved in action—there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

To refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one.

Systematic research supports the message of these cases. As noted in an article in the New York Times, "even in the most extreme circumstances—like the financial crisis—directors bore little consequence for their poor decisions.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

Fairy be, what have have I gotten myself into?

When people are forced to reap what they sow, the benefit of consequence is appropriately placed, and health and healing become possible.

1. Is this something I want to be, do, or have? 2. Is this going to take me in the direction I want to go (not should go)? 3. Is this going to screw over* anybody else in the process?

Meanwhile, the truth is, the only question you ever need consider when making decisions about your life are: 1. Is this something i want to be, do, or have? 2. Is this going to take me in the direction I want to go (not should go)? 3. Is this going to screw over anybody else in the process?

Died from eating a Hershey bar.

There are no right and wrong choices," Tain said trying to keep his voice gentle. "There is only what we do with the choices we make.

the Spaniard was looking at her bare legs, he was going to accidently-on-purpose hit him when Snow started misbehaving.

Antoine was one hundred and ten percent certain that this was a very bad idea. Very very bad. Unfortunately, the raging hard-on in his boxers was telling him that he was in the mood for something very very bad

It was intensely infuriating the way it always is when you call a man you shouldn't be calling.

What's done is done. Whether to you, or by you, and you cannot change it. But what's not done is not done. And there, both hope and hazard lie.

God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself.

Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same.

We are not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

One day you'll go walking with the devil, my girl, she told me, and you won't come back at all.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

No matter how careful you are"..."there's always going to be a mess, and you're going to have to clean it up afterward.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

It's hard to know, ever, where a story beings. We touch down in a world fully inhabited by others, a drama already in progress. By the time we make our entrance - incontinent and screaming, like dirty bombs detonating - the climax is a distant memory. Our arrival is not the beginning; it is a consequence.

I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.