Plans Quotes - Page 20

• Fail to plan, plan to fail.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational Life, Planning, Failing

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!

  Brigham Young

  Giving, Effort, Vision

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• Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  White, People, House

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a little more flair." "Well, I left my armor and warhorse at home," she said. "You're just upset because your big University brain couldn't think of a way, and my plan is brilliant.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

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• Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Doe, Murder, Victim

  "Flashforward". Book by Robert J. Sawyer, 1999.

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• And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Quality, Errands

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Jurassic Park: A Novel”, p.171, Ballantine Books

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• So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead.

  Tori Amos

  Fire, Water

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• The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Thinking, Self, Hatred

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 07, 2016

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• The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

  Alice Sebold

  Moon, Views, Sky

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• Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Crazy, Lying, Fate

  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1976). “The Portable Cervantes”, p.427, Penguin

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• It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

  James W. Loewen

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Track, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.166, Penguin

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• The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

  Brennan Manning

  Reality, Decision, Promise

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• Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, I Hate You

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1996). “The Perfect Way”, p.229, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more than I can say; but I’ll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I’ll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.

  Charlotte Bronte

  I Like You, Real, Distance

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.224, Penguin

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• Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Beautiful, Memories

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1, 1996.

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• The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

  Pam Houston

  Heart, Mind, Universe

  Megan McMorris, Pam Houston (2006). “Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives”, p.1, Seal Press

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• I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love You, Matter, Coraline

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.91, A&C Black

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• It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

  Suzanne Collins

  Awful, Compromise, Neighbor

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.889, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you know you have to wait anyway, why not make a decision to enjoy your life while you’re waiting? Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there’s nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring his plan to pass.

  Joel Osteen

  Knowing, Decision, Waiting

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• If you’re not seeing God move in your life right now, one of two possibilities must be considered. Either your requests are not God’s best and will probably not be answered the way you’d like or it must not be the right time. If God were to answer that prayer the way you are hoping, it could interfere with his ideal plan for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Prayer, Moving, Two

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• There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Couple, Past, Phrases

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• To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Girl, Boys, Practice

  Alain Robbe-Grillet (2015). “La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, One Day, May

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• It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

  Hugh Laurie

  Relax, Switzerland, Littles

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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