Quotes About Consequence

I wanted my unhappiness to be a result of defying convention—like a Hardy novel where I'd exceeded my society's allowance for freethinking and was now being punished.

Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to.

Actually, I killed him in a moment of serene calm. It was what had to be done. I made a calculated decision and pulled the trigger. The risk of him getting away or slipping through the system was too great.

I committed murder. That doesn't weigh heavily on me. I believe I made the morally correct choice.

How do I shoot?" "Your finger through there. Feel that? But you only pull if you're sure that everything's right." "Why?" "Because you can't take it back." She

The prize seemed worth the possible cost.

acting first and leaving the consequences to take care of themselves.

There were light moments in response to hecklers. 'What would be the consequence if this seat were lost to Liberalism and to Free Trade?' he asked his audience rhetorically. When someone shouted out 'Beer!', Churchill immediately replied, 'That might be the cause. I am talking of the consequence.

la vida de todo hombre se dirime en la encrucijada del Pensamiento o la Acción».

Finally, remember that by saying "yes"—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying "no" to something else. Each time you make a commitment, you forfeit your chance to commit to something else.

Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say "yes" to one thing you are inevitably saying "no" to another.

Remember that by saying "yes"—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying "no" to something else.

It isn't much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

I thought I was choosing the lesser evil. I chose the lesser evil. Lesser evil! I'm Geralt! Witcher…I'm the Butcher of Blaviken—

Zawsze trzeba dziaÅ'a?. ?le czy dobrze, oka?e siÄ™ pó?niej. Å»aÅ'uje siÄ™ wyÅ'Ä…cznie bezczynnoÅ›ci, niezdecydo­wania, wahania. Czynów i decyzji, cho? niekiedy przynoszÄ… smutek i ?al, nie ?aÅ'uje siÄ™.

Z?o to z?o. Mniejsze, wi?ksze, ?rednie, wszystko jedno, proporcje s? umowne a granice zatarte (...), je?eli mam wybiera? pomi?dzy jednym z?em a drugim, to wol? nie wybiera? wcale.

The Sword of Destiny has two edges. You are one of them. The other is... Death

Geralt?' 'Mm?' 'Don't kill it . . . Can you not?' 'A sword is a sword, Dandelion. Once drawn . . . ' 'Please try.' 'I will.

I don't care a shit about their time. What have I done to them?" groaned Dandelion. "What wrong have I done them?" "Think carefully," said the white-haired elf, approaching without a sound, "and maybe you can answer the question yourself.

Don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again.' 'You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?' 'No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.

Evil is evil, Stregobor," said the witcher seriously as he got up. "Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit. I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. Time for me to go. We'll see each other tomorrow." "Maybe

it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime.

To hell with that! It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.