I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb.
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
Instability is never a good idea.
Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold!
The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.
Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.
With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.
Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.
Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.
However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.
