Quotes About Consequence

I'm not a shitty person, but I'm about to do a shitty thing.

As Cotton Mather would write some time later, "Better whip't than damned."*

It wasn't was easy as picking one over the other. Nothing ever was. It wasn't as though I'd even had a choice, not really.

If I win... do you know what I would wish for?" Don't say it, don't say it. Don't say the thing you can't take back. I'd wish we never started any of this." The words echo in my head, in the air.

So I guess it's okay with you if I smoke up too?" says Steven. "If you get breast cancer

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd raise yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

A fight is like fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it's a living, breathing thing and there's no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could." -Belly

Je pense toujours à ce que je rate en prenant un chemin plutôt qu'un autre

and you will feel abject regret, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

If she had met him...She might've been singing a different tune.

I don't realize it until the words are actually out of my mouth, but I say it to hurt him.

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters? Old person worry: What if everything I do does?

Zum allgemeinen Besten, wie sie meinten, den Teufel zu brauchen, hatte keiner sich gescheut, aber persönliche Bekanntschaft mit ihm zu machen, begehrte keiner.

spesso l'uomo non sa che compie l'estremo cammino; se lo sapesse, non farebbe quel cammino, prenderebbe un'altra strada.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

There would be hell to pay (or purgatory to rent, at a minimum) if I did not act fast.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

That's just how it is with history. You do things and later on when people see what you did, it looks bad.

These things have happened so often that it becomes clear: a man like this did not die because of what he did but because of what he was. We are the ones who have the privilege of having things happen to us because of what we do. Not everyone is so lucky.

Why would you sacrifice today's freedom for a future that will always remain uncertain, no matter how carefully you plan for it?