Quotes About Consequence

Think of pouring out all that money on a whim.

measurement of a system can alter its behavior

It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night. How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night. No, Reacher said. If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.

Attacking me was like pushing open a forbidden door. What waited on the other side was his problem.

Then finally he opened the wrong door, and what came out at him was his problem, not mine.

this before. I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first. I'm not clear how that works exactly. They started it. They can't expect me to provide a health plan.

Stupidity isn't a capital crime. And there's no death penalty here, anyway. There is now.

Afterward the last one looked best off. He was still moving. So Reacher stepped down and kicked him in the head. Just once. The irreducible number. But hard. To discourage further participation. Then the lobby door opened and Brenda Amos walked in.

This is an event horizon, colonel. This is where it all goes wrong. Possibly for nothing. Possibly for some little thing other guys have gotten away with. But you're going to crash and burn. Best case, you're going to stall. Best case, you're going to get an asterisk against your name forever. As in, we can't be sure about that guy.

Attacking me was like pushing open a forbidden door. What waited on the other side was his problem. His risk. If he didn't like it, he shouldn't have pushed open the damn door.

I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first.

Reacher kept quiet. He could see where this game was going. If he said yes, he'd be expected to hurt the guy badly. Which he had no objection to in principle, but he'd prefer to do it on his own terms. If he said no, Borken would call him a coward with no sense of natural justice and no self-respect. An obvious game, with no way to win. So he kept quiet, which was a tactic he'd used a thousand times before: when in doubt, just keep your mouth shut.

If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.

Never point a loaded gun at anything you don't definitely want to kill." She

It's true.' 'Then why did you snatch him?' 'We had to. We don't have any choice.' 'Everyone

He was a nice person, back when that meant something. But you better not mess with his sense of right and wrong. Underneath he was a bomb waiting to go off. He had it under control. He was a very self-disciplined person. He had a rule. If you did a bad thing, he would make sure you only did it once. Whatever it took.

I saw it happening but could not stop it. Humility came to me too late. I'm a living proverb; learn from me.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

In the Old Testament, guilt enters the world by way of a bite from a fruit.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Quién cierra los ojos de un asesino? Hasta el Día del Juicio seguirán abiertos y mirarán fijos en la oscuridad

I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand?

But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!