Clark Gregg Quotes

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

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

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

History is totally unpredictable.

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

It is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies.

Wars and revolutions cannot be prescribed and the circle of their influence determined in advance.

Destiny and history are untidy.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

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

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Man plans. God laughs.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.