Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.
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Related There's no need to panic. You could literally plan something within 48 hours. There's so much you ca... BONNIE ROBERTS We put together what we think is a very good plan. ED STEADHAM Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style. JONATHAN STROUD It's a very ambitious plan and a very good plan for the town. We need senior housing in town, and th... RUTH BIRTZ You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan! KATHERINE KELLY It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of desi... CHARLES DARWIN And tonight I'm feelin like an astronaut, sending sos from this tiny box,and i lost the signal when ... SIMPLE PLAN We knew who we had coming up, and Santa Monica isn't as good as they were last year. So we didn't pa... DON GARRIOTT I think the government plan that was approved was a good plan, and I think it needs to be implemente... BARRY SHRAGE If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a ... LEE STROBEL A vision without a plan is fantasy. A plan without a vision is mediocrity. Believing 'God will do ... DEREK RYDALL We haven't really gotten anything back as far as it's a good plan, bad plan or we're not going to co... BILL FINICAL I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. ALAN RICKMAN We have to play well as a team. If we play together and follow the game plan, we'll do fine. If we d... DON CHANDLER Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS It's a good plan. But it remains to be seen if it can be implemented. GERHARD REDECKER This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo... BEN MENDELSOHN We had a plan and that was that all of the orange and white cars were going to stay together and hop... BRANDON DAVIS We weren't just going against her. They have a very good team. Our game plan was just to play her as... CASAUNDRA WILSON That wasn't pretty on either side. When you put a game plan together and it was there 20 percent of ... JEFF TADTMAN A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. JOHN ARGENTI There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES It was a simple plan, but he was a simple man, and sometimes simple was good. DAN WELLS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS We're concerned by it and plan to have a forensic psychiatric examination done very soon. LESLIE BALLIN She came up to me one day and said 'I think it would be good if we did a fundraiser,' ... I said, 'W... JENNIFER HAMPTON It is very exciting. It was our plan from day one to have a Russian team in Formula One and we have ... ALEX SHNAIDER You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so bo... ADAM LAMBERT If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan. EDDIE IZZARD We've had a premise and a game plan for that set aside all along in our plans -- a Plan A, Plan B, P... FLOYD REESE Love one another as much as you can and pray it is part of His master plan. D. C. COOPER All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan. They needed more clues ab... JAMES DASHNER One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. JONATHAN STROUD According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, m... JONATHAN STROUD There is a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, ... You can't plan for everything. What we can do i... JAMES GREGORY They are playing at their home, so pressure will be on them. Because whenever a team visits India th... HARBHAJAN SINGH We should always have a plan B, but at the same time, treat plan A like it were our only option. IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE Don’t live life anyhow, else you get anywhere. Plan your life somehow and you can get somewhere. A... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR "God's plan" is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil MARY DALY You shouldn't panic so much," Siris said. "You'll never be a good thief if you panic. SEAN F. HOGAN I love it when a plan comes together. MIKE EITEL I love it when a plan comes together, GEORGE PEPPARD Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS No designers really get together and plan it. MICHAEL VOLLBRACHT As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan. ROWENA CHERRY He is a very impressive horse. The plan was to make the running if no-one else was ready to do so. LUCA CUMANI Employers need to measure the cost of any given health plan two different ways: premiums and product... HELEN DARLING If that child's behavior is so severe that it warrants a behavior plan, that plan needs to be follow... JANICE ARGABRIGHT For some reason it seems so difficult to build a plan, and then work the plan. ANN MARSHALL Her mental side was so strong. And her family values were so strong. They had such a good plan and w... GARY GILCHRIST There were some very intense and very detailed discussions about creating a land use plan and financ... GEORGE RENNER The plan can go as long as we need it to. Hopefully not very long, for the sake of the city as a who... HOWARD SPROW Plan specifically so you can implement flexibly. DALLIN H. OAKS It was as uneventful of a launch sequence as you can imagine. There was not a single anomaly worked ... JIM SLAVIN Sometimes things happen in life that you didn’t plan for. All you can do is suck it up and start m... COLLEEN HOOVER We're going to look at the last strategic plan and come up with a method for a good strategic plan b... BRIAN BODE [A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on ... ADAM GOPNIK Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together. FRAN FOLEY Do not plan your life as if you own it JENNY ROSALES-FERAER No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then s... TOBA BETA No one knows for sure about the future.
But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it,
then s... TOBA BETA Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to hav... ERIC SCHMIDT Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to... IBN GABIROL Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to... SOLOMON IBN GABIROL A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that firs... SHANNON L. ALDER Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achi... GEORGE L. MORRISEY Our girls have been through a lot together. You give them a game plan and they execute it. They have... MARK MELTON You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence ... SIDNEY A. FRIEDMAN You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events. JOHN BERGER I doubt if she is in a position to win on Sunday as it looks a very hot race, but if she runs well w... CHRIS RICHARDSON I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully. JOHN LEE HANCOCK You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the wo... WILLIAM HAZLITT You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the wo... WILLIAM HAZLITT You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you cant use that as a re... , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic... EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA This was a great team effort all the way around. We played so well together and executed our game pl... JENNIFER ROCKWOOD She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Ethan had his game plan together and that made a difference. BRAD JOYNER When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI You can never plan the future by the past. EDMUND BURKE Rumor is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,
And of so easy and so plain a stop... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At this point we are putting a plan together and I'm confident it will work. BOB STAPLETON To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functi... MARGARET THATCHER All different types of food can fit into a meal plan and that's why I don't believe in dieting becau... CHRISSY BARTH It wasn't easy. It was my plan to keep a good pace going. PAULA RADCLIFFE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow PROVERB This is not a time to panic or have any problems. We have time to plan. BILLY MAYES I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS Life doesn't have a plan for you - you have to plan it. OCTAV DRUTA
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JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous. JONATHAN SWIFT Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. JONATHAN TOM More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life. JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... JONATHAN TROPPER A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e... JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a... JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. JONATHAN PRICE Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. JONATHAN SWIFT Don't set your wit against a child. JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ... JONATHAN SWIFT It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo... JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ... JONATHAN SCHATTKE Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. JONATHAN SWIFT If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by... JONATHAN KOZOL The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w... JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. JONATHAN SWIFT Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will ... JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge. JONATHAN SWIFT All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas... JONATHAN SWIFT In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he... JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. JONATHAN SWIFT We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. JONATHAN SWIFT Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor... JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. JONATHAN SWIFT What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n... JONATHAN MILLER Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. JONATHAN SWIFT Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re... JONATHAN RABAN One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h... JONATHAN SWIFT