Plans Quotes - Page 35

• For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

  Alan Watts

  Contentment, Alive, Able

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• Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Waiting, Promise

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• Clary sat back. "You don't just get to say no." "This plan involves me! I get to say no! No." "Simon -" Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. "Let me introduce you to my good friend No.

  Cassandra Clare

  Good Friend, Sitting, Introducing

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• No' is a magical word," he told her. "Here's how it goes. You say, 'Simon, I have an insane, suicidal plan. Would you like to help me carry it out?' And I say, "Why, no.

  Cassandra Clare

  Suicidal, Insane, Helping

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child. In that case, the child would find not himself in his mother's face, but rather the mother's own projections. This child would remain without a mirror, and for the rest of his life would be seeking this mirror in vain.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn’t too great.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Loss, Giving

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• That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.

  Christopher Moore

  Horrible, Chosen

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• Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

  Mark Waid

  Doe

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• You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Turns, Know How, Knows

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Undomestic Goddess”, p.193, Random House

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• So I guess that the next time I make a date with a concussed guy, I should pin a note to his collar so he doesn't forget." "Good plan." His hand was next to hers on the table. He let his thumb glide over her fingers, a small, almost casual touch that sent a shudder through her. "I'm sorry I forgot our date.

  Jill Shalvis

  Sorry, Hands, Guy

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from May 10, 2013

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• I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crush, Believe, Men

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.14, HarperCollins Australia

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• ...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don’t think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn’t any plans on sharing our bed.

  Shannon Hale

  Love You, Thinking, Honor

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.379, A&C Black

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• Holly, do you trust me?” Holly groaned. “Artemis, don’t ask me that. I just know one of your outrageous plans is coming.” “Do you trust me?” “Yes,” Holly sighed. “I do. More than anyone.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hollies, Trust Me, Ask Me

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• All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn’t your plan when you created the universe—maybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world. But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

  Lauren Kate

  War, Good Love, Fighting

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series”, p.388, Random House

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• I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Doors, Laughing, Trying

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• Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

  Kiera Cass

  Mom, Yeah, Shots

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• The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key

  E. B. White

  Eye, Keys, Florida

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• I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Masters, Foolhardy

  "The Thief". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 1996.

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• This is my favorite part. It starts and ends here. The pebbles shine, the plan worked, Hansel Triumphant. Lesson number one: be sneaky and have a plan. But the stupid boy goes back, makes the rest of the story postscript and aftermath. He shouldn’t have gone back. And this is the second lesson I took from the story: when someone is trying to ditch you, kill you, never go back.

  Richard Siken

  Stupid, Boys, Numbers

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• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sleep, Caring, Men

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• I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.27, Egmont UK

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• Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

  Eoin Colfer

  Real, Paper, Sometimes

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax

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• Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

  Stephen King

  Stuff, Bears, Suspicious

  Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Boys, Simple, Men

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Lost World”, p.8, House of Stratus

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• He took a deep, shuddering breath. "Okay. I said it, it's out there. And I am fine now. So let's move on, shall we? What's the plan?

  Eoin Colfer

  Moving, Said, Fine

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