Quotes About Consequence

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.

What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it's too late? What if you can't? Then you must find a way to live with it.

Will you punish me forever?

Okay. That's fair. Abso-tive-ly fair. Let's say the tables were turned. If I were about to walk off a cliff, what would you do?" Evie pursed her lips. "Push?" "I don't believe that." "You would on the way down.

He deserves to have his head on a spike for all to see. Waring: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Evie yanked him to safety by the edge of his shirt, ripping it. "Thanks. You owe me a shirt," Sam said. "You owe me twenty dollars.

And falling for Sam Lloyd was the don't-you-dare cherry on top of a worst-idea sundae.

A stab in the dark sometimes brought blood.

He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible. He'd been wrong.

Unfortunately, what should or should not be had no relation to what was.

If you marry the wrong man," Steven warned, in a voice all the more ominous because of its quietness, "you'll regret it into your old age. You'll never pass a day—or a night—without remembering how it was when we made love in a field of daisies, and wishing to God it could be that way with him. But it won't be, Emma—no matter how hard you wish." She

Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.

That's a central life question, don't you think? Do you regret the things you did, or the things never done?

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.

One who speaks 'completely' negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and 'positive' does not create any obstruction (antray).

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.