Plans Quotes - Page 28

• Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Success, Night

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• Life's sloppy...You think you know how tomorrow's going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Thinking, Doe, Tomorrow

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• Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, World, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah...

  J.R. Ward

  Voice, Vampire, Best Laid Plans

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.44, Penguin

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• See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.

  Rachel Caine

  Rachel Caine (2013). “The Morganville Vampires Collection: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls' Dance, Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools”, p.274, Allison & Busby

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• Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

  David Eddings

  Poor, Impatience, Substitutes

  David Eddings (2010). “Demon Lord Of Karanda: (Malloreon 3)”, p.21, Random House

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• They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

  Charlaine Harris

  Cute, College, Thinking

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.737, Penguin

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• You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

  Michael Palin

  Rubber, Suits, Chickens

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• If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

  Greg Graffin

  Destiny, Life And Death, Goal

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• I believe that in our own individual ways, God takes us to the grove or the mountain or the temple and there shows us the wonder of what His plan is for us. We may not see it as fully as Moses or Nephi or the brother of Jared did, but we see as much as need to see in order to know the Lord's will for us and to know that He loves us beyond mortal comprehension.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Brother, Believe, Order

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• The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Children, People, Pleasure

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.142, e-artnow

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• That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Warrior, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.

  Cassandra Clare

  Diabolical

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.916, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.

  Tina Fey

  Mom, Mcdonalds, Years

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• The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

  Dan Millman

  Change, Hope, Time

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• Over the years I have learned that when I need answers to deal with crises, people, and issues, I must go to God. God will help us in everything we do if we stay in tune and if we will call on him. We must each plan our future with him in our homes, our families, and our relationships with others. If we make him our senior partner, our lives can be successful.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Senior, Home, Successful

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• Now-what’s our game plan?” Coach Hedge belched. He’d already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and another flower from the vase on the table. He would’ve eaten the silverware, except Piper had slapped his hand. “Climb the mountain,” Hedge said. “Kill everything except Piper’s dad. Leave.” “Thank you General Eisenhower,” Jason grumbles.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Flower, Hands

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• Damien Vesper Didn't plan on killing anyone today

  Rick Riordan

  Today, Killing

  Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Rick Riordan, Jude Watson (2011). “The 39 Clues Book 11: Vespers Rising”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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• My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

  James Patterson

  Pain, Agony, Saving

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• Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.

  Ilona Andrews

  Nice, Giants, Outsiders

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.143, Penguin

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• There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

  Charles de Lint

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.437, Macmillan

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• I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Brother, Pain, Feelings

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• So I know you must have a plan and this wolf—" "Beast," Min said. "—frog, whatever, can't fit your plan." "He's not a frog," Min said. "I kissed him and he did not turn into a prince."He turned into a god. No, he didn't . "Look, I'm never going to see him again, so everybody can relax.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Relax, Looks, Frogs

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.118, Macmillan

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• He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).

  Ann Voskamp

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.17, Zondervan

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• Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Girl, Names, Two

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