#sequences

Some things you sentence yourself to life for. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#consequences #life

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. ↗

— John Connolly

#fairy-tales #gruesome #horror #business

I’m not going to answer that because it’s ridiculous. I love you, Lainey. I've loved you from the day I met you, if not before, and I've loved you every day since. How could you even doubt that? ↗

— Kaitlyn Oruska

#forever #love #love

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#consequences #human #human values #kind #knowledge

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

#charity #consequences #willpower #anger

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#am #i #i am #knowing #like

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#bad #consequences #like #provokes #sword

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating. ↗

— William J. Perry

#against #allies #anyone #both #consequences

The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#inevitability #life #time #life

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then your allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#betrayal #consequences #divorce #hurt #justice