Quotes About Consequence

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs

Like they say, James: you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

You should never kid yourself about the reality that you must always give something up in order to gain something. If

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

"And everybody praised the duke,Who this great fight did win.""But what good came of it at last?"Quoth little Peterkin."Why, that I cannot tell," said he;"But 'twas a famous victory."

With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, And new-born infant, died. But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory. They say it was a shocking sight, After the field was won, For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory.

I've been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

We carry nemesis inside us.

There are many things one must do when he leads or rules that are painful to do," he said. "You, yourself, when you become king shall find many difficult tasks and you shall have to hurt others and yourself. The throne brings trouble and grief along with the glory.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

Søren Kierkegaard: «Atreverse es perderse un instante, no atreverse es perderse para siempre».

Se imaginaban nuevamente en un desmesurado salón de muros encristalados cuyo centro lo ocupaba una mesa redonda. Sus cuatro secretarios con papeles en las manos y las plumas tras de la oreja se acercaban a consultarle, mientras que en un rincón, con los sombreros en las manos, inclinadas las cabezas canosas, estaban los delegados de los obreros. Y Erdosain volviéndose hacia ellos les decía simplemente: «O mañana vuelven al trabajo o los fusilaremos».

Todo cae por su propio peso, no sé si se entenderá el término caer por su propio peso, imaginaos una estatua hecha de mierda que se hunde lentamente en el desierto, bueno, eso es caer por su propio peso".

Yo era la que veía el pasado y las que ven el pasado nunca pagan. También veía el futuro y ésas sí que pagan un precio elevado, en ocasiones el precio es la vida o la cordura.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Woe betide whomsoever I met on my path!

Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and reface our mistakes and defeats until we can learn from them. When we learn from the past, the wheel continues to move forward, towards growth and evolution. When we don't, the wheel spins backward, and we are given another chance. If once more we squander the opportunity, the wheel continues its rotation towards devolution, or destruction.

whatever peace came from tolerating evil was short-lived. The devil always came to claim his own.