Quotes About Consequence

O provérbio diz: a quem mal vive, o medo o segue.

lesser evils exist, but we can't choose them. Only True Evil can force us to such a choice. Whether we like it or not.

Even for an end that was justified by the means?' 'One can always find a less drastic means.' The emperor wiped his face. 'There are always plenty of them.

You do not dice with Destiny with impunity!

Everything you do matters. Every move you make, every action you take...matters. Not just to you, or your family, or your business or hometown. Everything you do matters to all of us forever.

First we make a choice. Then our choices make us.

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big 'however'- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

Everything somehow works out. Every decision has an outcome, and every path has a destination.

I always end up where the road I've chosen takes me.

Actually, there was nothing sudden about his undoing. His fall was inevitable. The end of this story was determined years ago when he chose a path that, from the very beginning, had dishonor, disgrace, and dismissal as the destination. Direction determines destination. Every time.

There's a third thing about getting lost. The road I'm on always determines where I end up. Pretty insightful, eh? It really doesn't matter where I intended to be; the path I take determines my ultimate destination. Plans, intentions, spousal expectations . . . none of that counts. I always end up where the road I've chosen takes me. And that, as you know by now, is the theme of this book.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Después de haber comido entrambos doce nécoras, alguien dijo a Pilatos: -¿Y qué hacemos ahora? Él vaciló un instante y respondía (educado, distante, indiferente): -Chico, tú haz lo que quieras: Yo me lavo las manos.

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. Her freedom will be a condition of personal privilege that deprives those on which she exercises it of her own freedom. The most extreme kind of this deprivation is murder. These women murder.

Mrs. Brandon herself, in one of her moods of devastating truthfulness, had explained her own appearance as the result of a long and happy widowhood, and as, after a little sincere grief at the loss of a husband to whom she had become quite accustomed, she had had nothing of consequence to trouble her, it is probable that she was right.

Simon's eye has turned to dust," Septimus said. "What?" - Marcia

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

I don't hate you. I hate what you've done and what it led to.

What good is it to know of a danger if you don't do anything about it? Maybe it's better not to know. Knowing can be a curse.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

The thing I think about all the time is, what if I'd taken a job at Deloitte instead? They offered me one. I just think if I'd taken literally any other job, Cambridge Analytica wouldn't exist. You have no idea how much I brood on this.