I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet, everything we do, it changes us. It makes us who we are. And, if we’re lucky, we’re given the chance to make things right again.
—Karina Halle in Sins & Needles
You can’t be responsible for anyone but you. We all make our own decisions, and pay our own consequences. You can love someone, but you can’t fix them.
—Lyla Payne in By Referral Only
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences.
—R. D. Ingersoll
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.
—Philippa Carr
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
—Margaret Mead
Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again. And some people don't. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision.
—Jenny Colgan in The Bookshop on the Corner