Jimmy Sangster Quotes

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Things are electric. If we don't make up our minds on what we are going to do ... there will be pandemonium. Of course, if we do there may also be pandemonium.

When you start a military intervention, you do not know what will happen even in the next hour

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

If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.

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.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Freedom has its risks.

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

With me, you never know what is going to happen

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.