Victor Hugo Quotes

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

History is the unfolding of miscalculations

A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

Other men would … have to pay for that terrible arrogance and vainglory.

This administration has been attempting to unscramble the omelet. Mistakes made in the last four years cannot be undone.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.

The pressure of time, is the overwhelming challenge for policymakers who must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time and whose mistakes are irretrievable.

Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.

Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.