John Wilkes Booth Quotes

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it.

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

I'm comfortable with bad news. I feel confident in my ability to solve the problem if I know that there's a problem.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.