Top 100 No Plan Quotes
#1. constitute a horror story wherein the villains of the piece stole power from a stable governance system in order to cast the population of the world into an ongoing lab experiment with no plan or boundary. A dismal science.
Warren Ellis
#2. Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation ... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
Lionel Murphy
#4. No plan,' I sighed. The paper bird had flown away without my noticing, and I wondered briefly where it had gone. 'I need faith, Light, and friendship, apparently.'
Pixie dust. Don't forget that. It's very important.
'Shut up,' I said, scratching him behind the ear.
Mirriam Neal
#5. Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Zig Ziglar
#6. Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
Van Morrison
#8. Let's invent "do nothing" days, where there is no plan and no structured play. Let's ensure that kids get bored every so often and have to use their imaginations to invent ways to escape.
Richard Watson
#9. I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else ... no plan B.
Eddie Alvarez
#10. We'd also left lots of time unscheduled - the long stretches of hours we'd spend at the beach or walking around or just hanging out with no plan beyond maybe getting fountain Diet Cokes. It was Sloane - you usually didn't need more than that to have the best Wednesday of your life.
Morgan Matson
#11. I have no plan or purpose; I am just enjoying every moment of life.
Debasish Mridha
#12. I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.
Adrian McKinty
#14. You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
Alec Sulkin
#15. At the worst times, the best plan was often no plan. And Ky excelled at coming up with no plan.
Gillian Bronte Adams
#16. Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.
Jeff Miller
#17. We had no plan. No final destination in mind. We just drove faster and faster until we arrived. And when we did, all I could think of was how much fun it had been getting there.
Matthew Crow
#19. Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.
Cote De Pablo
#21. No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
Charles E. Wilson
#22. We need to fight a battle to see this truth. When bad things happen, the Enemy comes through the door and tells us that God doesn't love us anymore and has no plan for us, and then we tend to bail out on God.
Louie Giglio
#24. No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
Calvin Coolidge
#25. So what's the plan?" Ben asked.
"Go inside. Look around. Improvise."
"Brilliant." Hi stroked his chin. "Quick question: Is having no plan the same as having a terrible plan, or are those different categories?
Kathy Reichs
#26. [A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it's a good plan.
Adam Gopnik
#27. There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.
Timothy Ferriss
#28. Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map.
Steve Maraboli
#29. It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
Zakk Wylde
#30. There was no plan for us. We are a misspelling being erased by Death in order for the story of total chaos to continue.
Keith Buckley
#31. Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction - just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.
Randolph M. Nesse
#32. No plan ever failed due to adequate planning.
Jury Nel
#33. I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.
Peter Jurasik
#35. Strategy is sacrifice. Try and do everything then you have no plan, no hope and especially no future.
Ron Wiens
#36. [Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#37. I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Aaron Johnson
#38. I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
H. Jon Benjamin
#39. The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.
Warren Buffett
#40. For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.
Reince Priebus
#41. Well," Han said with a sigh, "we've gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That's progress of a sort.
James S.A. Corey
#42. What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.
Jacques Monod
#43. The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
Ban Ki-moon
#46. President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.
Glenn Hubbard
#47. I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
Patrick DeWitt
#48. And anyway he did not understand them; and he made the great mistake of leaving them out of his calculations. He had no plan for them, and there was no time to make any, once they had set to work. As
J.R.R. Tolkien
#49. For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.
Robert Motherwell
#50. I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.
D.H. Lawrence
#51. Proverbs 21:30 (NIV). There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD ...
Anonymous
#53. There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
Charles De Lint
#54. When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.
Jennifer Lopez
#55. The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#56. Unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.
Anne Sexton
#57. Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.
John C. Maxwell
#58. It's not life, it's just an existence, jumping from one moment to the next with no idea of the past, and no plan for the future.
S.J. Watson
#60. I had no weapons. No plan. Nothing but my blood and my hands. They were coming, and there were more of them than I'd realized.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#61. The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.
Bill Maher
#62. There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.
John Fowles
#63. I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!
Vinnie Vincent
#64. I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
Charles Bukowski
#65. He had absolutely no plan beyond opening his mouth and planting his foot in it.
Haley Walsh
#66. The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.
Eliot Engel
#67. But in the fourth century, as in any other, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'.
Peter Heather
#68. Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.
Geoffrey Canada
#69. all had no idea what they were doing. There was no plan. But they acted anyway. They didn't just know. They chose.
Jeff Goins
#71. Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.
Walter Wykes
#72. They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. I'd have to agree.
Andy Weir
#73. The old dictum is that "no plan survives first contact with the enemy," and the special-ops team is already regrouping and improvising a new plan. He hears the sharp, disciplined fire
Don Winslow
#74. ENGINEERS and programmers have an old saying that Eric's father liked to quote: no design survives an encounter with reality. His mother preferred the military version: no plan survives contact with the enemy.
D.A. Hill
#75. American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.
Al Gore
#76. Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan ever made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above.
George R R Martin
#77. No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Mike Cohn
#79. Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
#80. No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.
Tim Harford
#81. As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#82. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?
Dan Simmons
#83. How can you be so sure?" Lenk asked. "That there's no plan?" "Because," Mocca said as he eyed the bottle, "I can't imagine any God would be boring enough to want to know how everything ends.
Sam Sykes
#84. And in garbage we find material proof that there is no plan for stewarding the earth, that resources are not being conserved, that waste and destruction are the necessary analogues of consumer society. This
Heather Rogers
#85. Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.
David Davis
#86. Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#87. A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour
#88. I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.
Nimrat Kaur
#89. There seems no plan because it is all plan.
C.S. Lewis
#90. The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.
Nicole Krauss
#91. I had no schedule, no plan for today or the next, or the week after. Everything in my life just seemed to kind of roll together, collect speed and go thundering downhill.
Shannon Olson
#92. I used to think that God had no plan for me in life. That was never God's plan. I had to learn to love myself before I could love others.
Amy Roloff
#93. If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.
Dalai Lama
#94. Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.
Simon Sinek
#95. I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
Tom Peters
#96. It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.
Suzanne Collins
#97. If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
Robert Smith
#98. It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.
Gunter Grass
#99. No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
Vance Havner
#100. I always ate healthy, but it wasn't scientific. Now it's a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don't get tired after a meal. It does take a very detailed meal plan.
Lindsey Vonn
