Jason Isaacs Quotes

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

I'm a firm believer in the saying that goes, 'If you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans,' kind of approach.

Man plans. God laughs.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Man plans, but God decides.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

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.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.