“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Lee Child book The Affair
Source: The Affair
October 1987 Source: “Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit” (boxing adage) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/everyone_has_a_plan_until_theyve_been_hit_boxing_adage, The Big Apple, Barry Popik, May 05, 2012 Source: " Mike Tyson explains one of his most famous quotes http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-11-09/sports/sfl-mike-tyson-explains-one-of-his-most-famous-quotes-20121109_1_mike-tyson-undisputed-truth-famous-quotes", Mike Berardino, Sun Sentinel, November 9, 2012]<br><br>Often quoted as "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Sometimes misattributed to Joe Louis. <br class="br">On boxing
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Lee Child book The Affair
Source: The Affair
David Pogue (1963) Technology writer, journalist and commentator
" State of the Art: Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?emc=eta1," The New York Times, July 09, 2009.
“So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
Constantinos C. Markides (1960) Cypriot business theorist
Constantinos C. Markides. "Competitive strategy research's impact on practice," in: Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, Giovanni Battista Dagnino<sup></sup> (ed.), 2012 p. 561
“Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
“Satan's plan was… I'll save everybody”
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
2010s, 2010
Context: If you believe in the... War in Heaven where a third of the angels were cast out... it was about man's choice and he would provide a saviour and Satan's plan was... I'll save everybody... just take away their choice and give me the credit... that plan was rejected... because God knew that... failure was important... the progressives have... replaced God... they are taking.... rights are not given to us by our creator, they created by congress, they are taking the role of God, and so they are taking away our suffering, they are taking away all of our pain, all of the opportunity to fail...
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
"Brother Zachariah said pretty much the same thing. Maybe with less sarcasm."
Clary Fray and Jace Herondale, pg. 100-101
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Ben Gibbard (1976) American singer, songwriter and guitarist
On the the title of the Death Cab for Cutie album Plans, as quoted in Mix online (1 January 2006) http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_death_cab_cutie_2/index.html
Richard Feynman book What Do You Care What Other People Think?
(From a 1963 letter to his wife Gweneth, written while attending a gravity conference in Communist-era Warsaw.)
"Letters, Photos, and Drawings," p. 90-91
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
Context: The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity — and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) English executioner
Executioner: Pierrepoint. Harrap 1974. p. 211.