Quotes About Consequence

If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas.

Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.

The road back to reality, we suggest, begins by making two affirmations about nature: the uniqueness of the universe and the reality of time. These together have an immediate consequence which is the central hypothesis of our program: that the laws of nature evolve, and they do so through mechanisms that can be discovered and probed experimentally because they concern the past.

No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?

You know what they say assuming does. It makes an ass out of you and me, but mostly just me.

And what if it doesn't work?" "Then both of us end our existence tonight," he said in that impassive we're-chained-to-the-wall-and-the-bad-guys-are-coming voice I remembered too well.

You'll always reap what you sow. The chickens will always come home to roost. You'll always get what you deserve. Even the smallest good act has set in motion a good consequence.

Una buena acción, por pequeña que sea, pone en marcha una buena consecuencia.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

She felt, at times, that what had seemed like an infinity of choice turned out to be a funnel, life narrowing itself one bad decision at a time, each mistake cutting the options by half, spiraling her ever downward until there was nowhere left to fall but into a small, dark hole that had no bottom. Choosing

Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try.

You tell me, Dex, what kind of a bullshit god doesn't care what you did or who you hurt as long as you say you're sorry? Forgiveness

Fate is not merely knocking on the door, it has entered with a SWAT team and is banging their heads together and administering poppers.

he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom

When the judge asks me why I put poison in my wife's tea, he will not be satisfied by my saying 'Because electrical impulses from my brain caused my hand to reach for the bottle of arsenic and tip it into the waiting teacup'...

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

Trouble can be purchased cheaply, though the refund may be more than you can bear.

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking—by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

But it is written that it is better to burn one city than to curse the darkness.

Man is the sum total of everything he has done, wishes to do or not to do, and wishes he had done, or hadn't.

All right. You wanted me," I stated, "and now you have me, heaven help you.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

Willful waste makes woeful want.

If Hamilton had shot first, he had wasted his fire, exactly as foretold. And if Burr had fired first, as Pendleton alleged, then Hamilton seems to have squeezed the trigger in a reflexive spasm of agony and shot involuntarily into the trees. In neither scenario did Hamilton aim his gun at Aaron Burr.