Consequences Quotes

People say that it's the big decisions that are important... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction.

Julie Gittus

In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.

Aleatha Romig

The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn't imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we'd done? It would ruin everything. It would ruin their image of me; it would ruin every thought they'd ever had about who I was. It would be another death.Another loss. Another miscarriage.

Dana Reinhardt

God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed

Aleatha Romig

The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

C.S. Lewis

It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.

Anthony Liccione

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

Charles Seymour

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

George Bernard Shaw

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Sir Josiah Stamp

It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

Thomas Troward

There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Jeremy Taylor

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

George Eliot

Consequences are unpitying.

George Eliot

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

Joseph Addison