#sequence

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#familiarity #strong #weakness #freedom

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life

Let's live to regret this" (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3) ↗

— Martin Riggs

#life-living #regret #life

You would be a complete fool to think that any decision having made such a negative impact on your life could turn out differently if altered in any way.. ↗

— Chantell Schoeneberg

#decisions #life

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#environment #life-lessons #nature #life

You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#hurt #live #love #taste #love

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth. ↗

— David Cecil

#evil #faith #fanaticism #fundamentalism #good-intentions

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#consequences #deal #diabetes #hard #later

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#alarming #bright #bring #complacent #consequences

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible. ↗

— Abigail Padgett

#choices-and-consequences #life #living #living-life #opportunities