Quotes About Consequence

Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke

Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.

Now, I don't even want to be associated with him (President Obama). It's like touching a, a tar baby and you get it . . . you know you're stuck, and you're part of the problem now, and you can't get away."

An adventure is usually the penalty for lousy planning.

Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.

Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.

What is it you want the most? Money, love, fame, happiness? Make your choice, you only get one. Make it, and blow out the candles, spin the wheel, say the prayer. You only get one of them, so make it last. What is it you want the most? My name's Fate, Mister Fate to you, children, and whatever it is you want the most, make sure... Very sure... Because I'm gonna make sure it's the one thing you never get.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." —Omar Khayyam

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror.

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

you're right. You're no hero if your act of bravery only makes things worse.

But the bottom line is this, once a timeline affects its own past, even though it erases itself in the process, the effect it had still remains.

You and your loved ones need to know that your health is largely in your own hands, and no one else's. What needs to be understood is that health is the natural, spontaneous consequence of healthful living. It is rarely the consequence of expensive or complicated medical care.

We all end up ruing everything. It's the nature of this thing we call 'our condition.' Could, but didn't...Wanted to, but stopped myself...All the damn statements of regret we can never dodge.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

If John had been paying close attention to Lester's face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them.

Sometimes doing something is worse than doing nothing.

Just try to understand that sometimes it is better to see a thing destroyed, rather than ruined.

Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.

What happened to the others?" she wanted to know. "I killed them," he replied. Zannah seemed to think about this for a moment before shrugging indifferently. "Then they were weak," she said with simple conviction. "And they deserved to die.

Creeping determinism means that we pay less attention than we should to the things that don't happen.

The result is that we are tempted to infer a cause-and-effect relationship when all we have witnessed is a sequence of events. This is the post-hoc fallacy.

It's gonna take someone getting seriously sick. Football didn't do much 'bout steroids until Lyle Alzado died. That's the way of the world. Until your house burns down, you don't worry about getting smoke detectors.

Ash falls back into the face of he that throws it.