Contingency Quotes

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Always, Always have a plan

Always have a backup plan.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

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 always say don't make plans, make options.

"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Never expect anything, but plan for everything.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

There is nothing we can do to assure that this will never happen, but there is a lot we can do to assure that it happens more rarely.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

Historians emphasize contingency, complexity, and the unanticipated ... Few principles apply all the time.

When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.