Consequence Quotes - Page 17

• In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

  Jared Diamond

  People, Water, Community

  "Why societies collapse". www.abc.net.au. July 17, 2003.

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• Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.

  Muriel Barbery

  What Matters, Want, Building

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Serious, Knows

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stitches, May, Bleeding

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• There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.

  Garth Nix

  Believe, Honor, Action

  Garth Nix (2008). “Superior Saturday”, p.235, Scholastic Inc.

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• The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Children, Men, Vegas

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• God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.

  Max Lucado

  People, World, Want

  Max Lucado (2011). “Max On Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Way, Unintended Consequences, Angry

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.68, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• My point is that true leaders...understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a step you're willing to take." -Carlist Rieekan

  Timothy Zahn

  Decision, Leader, Weight

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• There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Things In Life, Action, Follow Through

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

  May Sarton

  Essence, People, Challenges

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Done, Wanted, Weighing

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.534, St. Martin's Press

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• It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

  Sarah Dessen

  Choices, Blame, Ifs

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.124, Penguin

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• Make your choice and accept the consequences.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Choices, Accepting

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.13, St. Martin's Press

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• In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

  Charlaine Harris

  Ties, People, Debt

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead As A Doornail: A True Blood Novel”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

  D. J. MacHale

  Taken, Simple, Decision

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Blood, Ears

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• Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

  George Eliot

  Men, Infatuation, Recklessness

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.716, Wordsworth Editions

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• I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.

  Stephen Fry

  Ejaculation, Forgiving, Kind

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.16, Soho Press

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• Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.

  Elizabeth George

  Children, Mistake, Wish

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• Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony.” “Oh, irony,” murmured Dorian.

  Richelle Mead

  Kings, Pain, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1403, Zebra Books

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• The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

  Neal Shusterman

  War, Bills, Unwind

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fall, Cat, Eye

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• For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Art, Struggle

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

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• In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

  Brandon Mull

  Mean, Heroism, Doing The Right Thing

  Brandon Mull (2012). “A World Without Heroes”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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