Quotes About Consequence

Public services are never better performed, than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.

A cold sentiment deserved a frigid end.

By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

A curse burns bright on crime.

The more you want, the more you stand to lose

Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Who acts in haste repents at leisure.

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbors.

Aunque a los malvados se les castigue severamente, difícilmente cambian su naturaleza desviada.

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbours.

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.

You always think you can make it up to somebody—later, you know.' She took a deep breath. 'But now I never can. I never can.

he had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions.

One of three things would occur when she thumbed it, she knew: They would lift off, the ship would blow up, or nothing at all would happen.

Stunned by his own action, Kylo Ren fell to his knees. Following through on the act ought to have made him stronger, a part of him believed. Instead, he found himself weakened.

Michael, it's terrible to say so, but sometimes you have to weigh the cost of one man's life against the value of an entire operation.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.

In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action is already chosen, there can be no freedom of choice. In a world of fixed future, no person is responsible. The rooms are already arranged.

Most people have learned how to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed in for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time to be judged on their own.