For Want of a Nail: Difference between revisions

{{quote| ''For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;<br />

For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;<br />

For want of a horse, the rider was lost;<br />

For want of a rider, the message was lost;<br />

For want of the message, the battle was lost;<br />

For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,<br />

{{quote| For want of a paperclip, a page was lost.<br />

For want of a page, a contract was lost.<br />

For want of a contract, a deal was lost.<br />

For want of a deal, a factory was lost.<br />

For want of a factory, a company was lost.<br />

{{quote| '''Homer:''' Eh, [["Close Enough" Timeline]].}}

{{quote| '''Ridcully:''' I suppose we'd have settled down, had children, grandchildren, that sort of thing ...<br />

'''Granny:''' What about the fire?<br />

'''Ridcully:''' What fire?<br />

{{quote| '''Rebecca:''' And your father met your mother in this wise. Some thirty-six years ago, as he was walking down Regent Street, his attentions were directed to a sculptor's shop, in which was a remarkable monument to a Colonel Culpepper, who died of a cold caught in going into the Ganges to rescue a favourite dog which had fallen into it. An old schoolfellow passed by, and, touching your father on the shoulder, asked him to dinner. Your father went, and at the dinner met your mother, whom he eventually married. And that's how you came about. [...] If your father hadn't loitered opposite the sculptor's shop, his schoolfellow would never have met him. If Colonel Culpepper hadn't died, your father would never have stopped to look at his monument. If Colonel Culpepper's favourite dog had never tumbled into the Ganges, the Colonel would never have caught the cold that led to his death. If that favourite dog's father had never met that favourite dog's mother that favourite dog would never have been born, neither would you. And yet you're proud of your origin!}}

{{quote| '''Ursault the ''All''-Seeing:''' Of course, if your boy Dammet remembers to tie the brindle dog when the harvest moon blooms full, the white maid will never be. A lot of trouble that will save. [...] But on the other hand, a lot of trouble that will cause. This same wolfwere maid could bring doom to the floating city. A lot of trouble that will save. On the other hand...}}

{{quote| Think of what might have been. Dragon fire and savage swords in Eriador, night in Rivendell. There might be no Queen in Gondor. We might now hope to return from the victory here only to ruin and ash. But that has been averted - becuase I met Thorin Oakenshield one evening on the edge of spring in Bree. A chance-meeting, as we say in Middle-earth. }}

{{quote| '''Martin''': You know, I don't like this red bowl, it's throwing everything off!}}

{{quote| '''Martha:''' But are we safe? I mean, can we move around and stuff?<br />

'''The Doctor:''' Of course we can. Why do you ask?<br />

'''Martha:''' It's like in the films. You step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race.<br />

{{quote| '''Narrator''': "A chain of critical events that led to the X disaster..."}}

{{quote| '''Mainwaring''':For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the rider was lost; for want of a rider, the message was lost; for want of the message, the battle was lost; and so it was that the kingdom was lost --<br />

{{quote| For want of a bird<br />

The sky was lost<br />

For want of a nail<br />

A shoe was lost<br />

For want of a life<br />

A life was lost<br />

For want of a toy<br />

{{quote| '''Heydrich's last words''': "The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself / We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum."}}