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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.”
― Mike Norton

“Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.”
― Sándor Márai, Embers

“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, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.”
― Billie Jean King

“I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.”
― Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

“They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found

“And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since.”
― Tony Burgess, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners

“I deserve my lollipop and I deserve my toothache.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“At various points in our lives, or on a quest, for reasons that often remain obscure , we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning.”
― Dai Sijie, Once on a Moonless Night

“Well, I suppose that consequently makes you my favorite nightmare.”
― Katja Michael, She Came at Dawn

“Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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, The Taste of Sorrow

“Nothing is small when you magnify it by eternity.”
― Reed S. Hansen, Ri Conquers the Multiverse

“No, she who rides the tiger can never dismount!”
― Dave Duncan, Ill Met in the Arena

“English: "Be an active cause of success, no a consequence of someone's scorn."

Česky: „Buď aktivní příčina úspěchu,
ne důsledek cizího výsměchu.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“Beware of liberating yourself into captivity.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Sometimes the choices you are given are bad ones, no matter which way you go. And therefore the consequences are bad ones, as well.”
― Terry Brooks, The Gypsy Morph

“Tomorrows hinge / on one decision. / In all directions: / consequence.

(from Destinations)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“If a drift is a rift, it's a shift.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Wise people are considering the interior because effervescence of interior will consequence the explosion.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Everything you do has a consequence. Good, bad, indifferent, there is always a price to pay. The question is: who pays? Sometimes making the right choice means you might lose something that seems important at the time.”
― Sarah J. Schmitt, It's a Wonderful Death

“But that would be unsurprising given our innate short-sightedness to consequences. Why deal with the discomfort now when the agony comes to a future you? That is their problem.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“The consequence of neglecting the family for career pursuit is costlier than the benefit of the career.”
― Daniel ANIKOR

“Wokeism, in its zealous pursuit of social justice, often inadvertently undermines the very principles it claims to champion. While the intention may be noble, the consequence is a stifling atmosphere where free speech becomes collateral damage. The suppression of dissenting voices, even through well-intentioned means, risks creating an echo chamber devoid of critical discourse. It's crucial to recognize that the path to a just society lies not in silencing opposition but in fostering an environment where diverse perspectives can coexist, allowing for the robust exchange of ideas that fuels progress.”
― James William Steven Parker

“I don't know, humane or not, man, a life is a life. Push a button half a million miles away or stick a shiv in a man's kidney while the dude stares you in the eye, you still got blood on your hands.”
― Duncan Ralston, Dead Men Walking: a Novelette

“There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be of any consequence to anyone else.
Except that it is.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

“Choice�� and ‘consequence�� are the two sides of a single coin. And the fool bent upon selfish ambition will adamantly declare that it is entirely possible to mint a coin with only one side.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough