Domino Effect Quotes

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

The tyranny we impose on others, we will eventually impose on ourselves.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Ideas have consequences.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

If South Vietnam falls to the Communists, Laos and Cambodia would certainly go, followed by Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and eventually the Philippines

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

Long did I endeavor … to preserve from breaking that fine and noble vase, the British Empire; for I knew that, being once broken, the separate parts could not retain even their share of the strength or value that existed in the whole.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Every person's every action has an effect.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

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