Ellis Peters Quotes

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.