Quotes about Consequence
Actually, there was nothing sudden about his undoing. His fall was inevitable. The end of this story was determined years ago when he chose a path that, from the very beginning, had dishonor, disgrace, and dismissal as the destination. Direction determines destination. Every time.
- Andy Stanley
There's a third thing about getting lost. The road I'm on always determines where I end up. Pretty insightful, eh? It really doesn't matter where I intended to be; the path I take determines my ultimate destination. Plans, intentions, spousal expectations . . . none of that counts. I always end up where the road I've chosen takes me. And that, as you know by now, is the theme of this book.
- Andy Stanley
God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?
- Sojourner Truth
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
- Pierre Corneille
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.
- Robin Sharma
her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. 'I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself, 'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what this bottle does.
- Lewis Carroll
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.
- Lewis Carroll
It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once
- Albert Einstein
We are given two choices—famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other.
- Aldous Huxley
and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!
- Robert Louis Stevenson