Quotes About Consequence

Take what you want, and pay for it.

Should and would build no bridges. -Lini

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I did that, the Horn couldn't save me. The Creator couldn't save me. I would damn myself.

Take what you want, and pay for it, the old saying went.

The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.

When you have a wolf by the ears, it's as hard to let go as to hold on.

He will take you back, and he will destroy you. I bring change, Rand said sadly. Not peace, but turmoil. Destruction follows on my heels everywhere. Will there ever be anywhere I do not tear apart? What will be, will be, Rhuarc. I can't change it.

Never prod at woman, unless you must, she will kill you faster than a man and for less reason. Even if she weeps over it after.

It was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission.

You break your neck and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again.

Do what you must, then pay the price for it, was what she had been taught, by the same women who had marked off those forbidden areas. It was refusal to admit the debt, refusal to pay, that often turned necessity to evil.

Do what you must, and pay the price if you're wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too.

Quer seja o urso a vencer o lobo ou o lobo a vencer o urso, quem fica a perder é sempre o coelho.

There's always the question of price, isn't there? Some prices I might not want to pay.

If you ask the lion to protect you from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

We all do as we must, as the Pattern decrees. For some there is less freedom than for others. It does not matter whether we choose or are chosen. What must be, must be.

Should and would build no bridges

You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.

You kill? You die. It's as simple as that.

Famine, Robert Conquest estimates that eleven million people died of starvation in 1932–33 and that seven million of those deaths were in the Ukraine.18 Most other estimates vary between seven and fourteen million lives lost. This was a predictable consequence of Stalin's policies of agricultural collectivization and forced industrialization.