A Quote by Jim Butcher

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Jim Butcher

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Fate First Laughs Lord Men Plan

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Jim Butcher
American - Author
Born: October 26, 1971

The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really.

Ruth Negga

Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family proclamation. If it is the Lord’s plan, it should also be our plan!

Bonnie L. Oscarson

It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.

Vince Gilligan

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

Harry Shearer

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

Spencer W. Kimball

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.

David Richo

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

Ronald Reagan

No marketing plan is ever going to bring in one soul that was not ordained by the Lord to be saved in the first place.

Monica Johnson

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics.

Jeff Ross

People plan, God laughs.

Nicholas Sparks

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Sam Waterston

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still his plan.