Quotes about Consequence

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

It's a vicious circle, people are going deaf because music is played louder and louder. But because they're going deaf it has to be played louder still.

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

Think of the rivers of blood, spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters, of a fraction of a dot...our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe - are challenged by that point of pale light.

You know, son, God will give you what you choose. And if you think about that real hard, it'll scare you to death. I don't think you're ready to suffer the consequences of those choices.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?" "Give him a good ducking, anyhow.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

I made a difference. I changed things, but it's a little too late for me.