"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed."
— Professor Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
His subjects used to say quite a bit
That as a monarch he was quite unfit
But still and all they had to admit
That he loved his mother.
That as a monarch he was quite unfit
But still and all they had to admit
That he loved his mother.
— Tom Lehrer, "Oedipus Rex", An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
Vaarsuvius: Though I cannot move, I am in no immediate danger. You made the right decision. Now go and meet our attackers.
Blackwing: You think this will be an easy fight then?
Vaarsuvius: No, I meant she made the right decision philosophically speaking, in choosing to protect the one she loves over considerations of respective power. Practically speaking, we are almost certainly going to die.
Blackwing: You think this will be an easy fight then?
Vaarsuvius: No, I meant she made the right decision philosophically speaking, in choosing to protect the one she loves over considerations of respective power. Practically speaking, we are almost certainly going to die.
"There's nothing to learn from her story here. Because it's, like, she did the right thing, and we got Hitler. There's not— you can't always take a lesson away from history. Sometimes it just sucks."
— Robert Evans, Behind the Bastards
After almost five days and five mostly sleepless nights, he had done it: he had rescued his other self. He looked at the unconscious body, mouth angled in a deranged grin of slumber, and wondered if it would turn out to be the worst mistake of his life.
— Red Dwarf: Last Human
"I'm really torn here. Because sometimes, when I answer these questions in a way that I think I'm going to protect people, things end up being worse."
