plan quotes

I don't have a moral plan. I'm a Canadian.

- David Cronenberg
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn,1988).

I have observed, in the course of a dishonest life, that when a rogue is outlining a treacherous plan, he works harder to convince himself than to move his hearers.

- George MacDonald Fraser
  Flashman.

When I went to the Bar as a very young man, (Said I to myselfsaid I), I'll work on a new and original plan, (Said I to myselfsaid I).

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Iolanthe, act1.

The scientific attitude implies†the postulate of objectivitythat is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

-Jacques Monod
  Le Hasard et la Nece  ssite  .

I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall†plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up, or anything else. If that will save it, save the plan.

- Richard M(ilhous) Nixon
  From the White House tapes relating to the Watergate scandal, recorded Mar.

No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

- Frances Perkins
On the depression of the1930s which inspired her to set up the Social Security system. Recalled on her death,14 May1965.

   Awake, my St.John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

- Alexander Pope
  An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.1^6.

'Good-morning; good-morning!'the General said When we met him last weekon our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. 'He's a cheery old card,'grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

- Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
  'The General'.

   It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.

- SirJames Steuart (later Denham)
  Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan. You should wear it inside, where it functions best.

- Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
  Interview, ABC TV,18 Mar.

Esta gente e   boa e de boa simplicidade. E imprimir-se-a ligeiramente neles cualquer cunho, que les quiserem dar. E logo lhes, Nosso Senhor, deu bons corpos e bons rostos, como a bons homens, e Ele que nos por aqui trouxe, creio que na‹  o foi sem causa. E portanto,Vossa Alteza, pois tanto deseja acrescentar na santa fe   cato l ica, deve entender em sua salva c° a‹  o. These people are good and simple.You can stamp on them any design that you wish to give them. And Our Lord gave them good bodies and good faces, and I think that it was his plan that we arrive here. Therefore,Your Majesty, since you wish so much to increase Catholic faith, you must provide for their salvation.

- Pero Vaz de Caminha
Carta (published1817).