#consequences

They are talking like fools. They are saying that two and two make nothing. They are saying that a man will have to die to in order to protect his life. If you agree to fight you agree to die. Now if you die to protect your life you aren't alive anyhow so how is there any sense in a thing like that? A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving. He doesn't say I will spend all my money in order to save money. He doesn't say I will burn my house to down in order to keep it from burning. Why then should he be willing to die for the privilege of living? ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#free-will #death

Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I’m only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one lunch period away from eating alone in the bathroom. I wonder if it’s ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#life-and-living #life

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#awareness #buddhism #call #consequences #important

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#consequences #detective #happens #mine #never

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#breaking #consequences #decision #disastrous #explore

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#beautiful #choice #cinema #consequences #cost

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#consequences #down #everybody #late #sits

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#coming #confrontation #consequences #costly #destruction

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#action #attention #both #cases #choice

Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health. ↗

— Howard Berman

#consequences #health #highest #highest levels #levels