Quotes About Consequence

In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right an wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action is already chosen, there can be no freedom of choice.

Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past while effect in the future, but future and past are entwined.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again.

There is no point in imagining that if one had been there, one could have prevented a thing that had happened only because it had not been prevented

if the starets can be killed, why can't a member of the aristocracy?' Vladimir asked. 'Why can't a member of the imperial family? Why can't the tsar himself? You must be careful when extracting a brick from the foundations, that it does not bring

sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.

One must accept that one's life is the result of past karmas and that one has the power to choose one's response to every situation.

sometimes an action we think is right turns out to be wrong.

no decision is right or wrong. Decisions can be beneficial or harmful, in the short-term or long-term, to oneself or to others. Essentially, every decision has a consequence, no matter which rule is upheld and which one is ignored. This law of consequence is known as karma.

The notion of karma is unique to Indian thought. No action exists in isolation. Every decision impacts the ecosystem. Karma is often mistaken for the adage, "As you sow, so shall you reap.

Such is the law of karma. Every action, howsoever innocent, has a reaction, that one has to experience if not in this life, then in the next,

nothing in this world is spontaneous. Everything is a reaction to the past. Shantanu

Thus, no decision is right or wrong. Decisions can be beneficial or harmful, in the short-term or long-term, to oneself or to others. Essentially, every decision has a consequence, no matter which rule is upheld and which one is ignored. This law of consequence is known as karma.

No action exists in isolation. Every decision impacts the ecosystem. Karma is often mistaken for the adage, "As you sow, so shall you reap." The assumption then is that if we sow good deeds, we will reap good rewards. But who decides what action is good or bad? The desire to qualify an action, and its consequence, as good or bad, right or wrong, is a peculiarly human trait. Nature does not do so.

Goddamn yer blood, you . . . / Lewrie wished to shout aloud; can't I relieve him for drunkeness, at least? He 71 bugger this up, certain! Drunk as Davy's Sow, or from spite for gettin' some o' his Molly Boys knackered! For better or worse, though, unfortunately, he was stuck with him. Oh, but if you turn this into a shambles, Jemmy, I'll see ye stomped on like a worm!

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow

The trouble with life is that incidents so often merely follow each other rather than grow out of each other ...

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you ,' she said. 'Only you can figure out if it's worth it.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you," she said. "Only you can figure out if it's worth it.