#sequence

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#choice #consequences #involves #least #our

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use. ↗

— Layne Staley

#i #lasting #paying #prior #still

The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing. ↗

— Jason Statham

#cold #days #oil #sequence #snowing

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#became #become #civil #civil servants #class

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#chance #consequence #ever #fact #happen

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#computer #controlled #could #fields #had

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#consequences #karma #pay-it-forward #reciprocity #responsibility

Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand.  And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#choices #conclusion #consequences #decisions #effect

Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225) ↗

— André Aciman

#coming-out #love-and-loss #unrequited-love #love

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#obscurity #the-new-yorker #accomplishments