125 Consequence Quotes

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone...when I came back the entire area was missing.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.

'We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. 'We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim, And when we died, they laid us on her breast, But she refuses us - until we earn Forgiveness from the lives we dispossessed.'

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

There are no second acts in American lives.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, So shorten I the stature of my soul.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, I remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP Only he didn't say 'doggone.''

None but the dead have free speech.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.

'The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection'

Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

'Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.'

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They called him dead And made his eldest son one day Slave in his father's stead.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

I carry the seeds of death with me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. My parents died so others could live; now I live, so others must die.

The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.

And he said 'God, make it a dream!' as he rode his last ride down. And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars, clipped off thirteen telephone poles, hit two houses, bruised eight trees, and Blue-Crossed seven people. it was then he lost his head, not to mention an arm or two before he stopped.

There's your Karma ripe as peaches.

Rouen! Rouen! Must I die here? Ah, Rouen, I fear you will have to suffer for my death!

Let's meet and either do or die.

Nevere yit Was non, which half so loste his wit Of drinke, as thei of such thing do Which cleped is the jolif wo.

She wanted to test her husband. She knew exactly what to do: A pseudonym to fool him. She couldn't have made a worse move.

Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin! In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!

Of the lessons also gained from the history of mankind is the fact that greed and arrogance, when combined, lead the oppressor to do injustice not only to others, but to himself as well; once this combination of greed and arrogance has misled him into a sense of undefeatable capability and power, as he takes the road of falsehood and aggression, committing the most heinous acts and proceeding from that sick imagination, to fall down the precipice and then into hell.

In this area of public policy alone, the accommodations that we have made to faith will do nothing but enshrine a perfect immensity of human suffering for decades to come.[2]

Mr. Harris argues cogently, pithily, wittily, passionately, that religious 'faith' is leading humanity straight to a very earthly hell.

Anything worse than what I do, without knowing what, or why, I have never been able to conceive, and that doesn't surprise me, for I never tried. For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.

While I was working on Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: 'Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house? 'For the first time, the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, 'No, it's just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I'm in this place where a weird part of history occurred. ' I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I don't want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, 'What if it was my sister?' I thought, 'Fuck Charlie Manson.' I went home and cried that night. It made me see there's another side to things, you know?

So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing - Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing - Stab at thee he that will, No stab the soul can kill.

(Falls down in a drunken stupor): Let's sit down.

'That's just too damn bad'

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Hermann went out of his mind, and is now confined in room Number 17 of the Obukhov Hospital. He never answers any questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: 'Three, seven, ace!' 'Three, seven, queen!'

You are very lovely now and soon you will be beautiful. Ant not in an ordinary way. Youth is always beautiful, but you are like some creatures of fairy born to bring ill to mortals. Only trouble can follow such gifts

...action restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that they are linked, some sense that life has chapters.

He'd find out soon enough what losing everything could mean

Don't you know that I'm not joking Aah, you think you won't, I think you will Don't you know that this tongue can kill C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon Lady kiss that frog

And in the end it seems I'm headin for tha pen/I try and find my friends, but they're blowin in the wind

You can go straight to the living hell.

Bang bang! You're dead!

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!???

Es gibt keine Notlugen; noch nie ist eine Unwahrheit gesprochen worden, die nicht fruh oder spat nachteillige Folgen fur jedermann gehabt hatte.

All get what they want; they do not always like it. (ch. 14)

But the blood always remained, for the key was enchanted.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

And I'm glad you got away, But I'm still stuck out here, My clothes are soaking wet, From your brother's tears.

Each mental wave we send out from the mind, Or base, or kind, Completes its circuit, then with added force Seeks its own source.

What would happen to the world if we were human?

Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.

There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily. All because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Failure too is a form of death.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im.

Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

The spirits that I summoned up I now can't rid myself of.

Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain. (2004)

He made a mistake, you know? And if he hadn't done this particular thing that night, it wouldn't have been... but he was... it happened. (1995)

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat is sufficient to inspire princes with the love of peace and the horror of war.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

People don't forget, do they?

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

'I got nothing to say to you. Just park my damn truck, and if you scratch it, you're gonna get your ass whipped.' (Austin to Michael Cole, when he arrived at the Royal Rumble 1998.)

'Your telling me, Stone Cold Steve Austin turns up the voltage, you don't wanna be my friend no more.' (To Jim Ross)