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• I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Years, Next, Know It All

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Kings, Woods, Blame

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• Eshe, I want to spend my life with you." "Good," she whispered back. "That was the plan.

  Lynsay Sands

  Want

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• Why do I have to do this?" Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for one of us as the tied up model," Nico pointed out. Dumbest plan you've ever come up with," Gator rumbled. "Offering myself all trussed up like a Christmas turkey to a serial killer who likes to torture people isn't too smart.

  Christine Feehan

  Smart, Fall, Boys

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• I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Easter, Party, Thinking

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.412, Vintage

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• Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian Inspirational, Drug, Devil

  David Wilkerson, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (2008). “The Cross and the Switchblade”, p.187, Chosen Books

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• A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Winning, Thinking

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• Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.

  Matthew Kelly

  Love, Pain, Age

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved”, p.115, BookBaby

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• It wasn't the kind of touch that said, Hey, I've got a plan, so hang in there because we're going to get out of this. It was more like the kind of touch that simply said, You aren't alone. It was really the only thing he could offer. And in that moment, it was enough.

  Richelle Mead

  Hey, Kind, Moments

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.242, Penguin

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• Great blessings await us at this time, and will soon be poured out upon us, if we are faithful in all things, for we are even entitled to greater spiritual blessings than they [the faithful at the time of Christ] were, because they had Christ in person with them, to instruct them in the great plan of salvation. His personal presence we have not, therefore we have need of greater faith.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Spiritual, Blessing, Faithful

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• Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Laughter, Memories

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• . . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

  Ted Dekker

  Pain, Memories, Reality

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.844, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Cities, Perfect

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.

  Harlan Coben

  Harlan Coben (2013). “The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle: Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear”, p.331, Dell

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• Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.

  Richelle Mead

  Use, Alive, World

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.453, Penguin

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• Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you." No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon? Valentine's face softened. "Jonathan-" "Especially," Jace said, "since I plan to do it again. Right now.

  Cassandra Clare

  Giving Up, Regret, Valentine

  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.847, Simon and Schuster

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• Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Struggle, Men, Wish

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.635, e-artnow

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• At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind the tape. John claims that here he told the guards that he could not speak English and when that failed to persuade them, he fa...ked a violent seizure. I am unclear as to the purpose of this part of his plan. John flung himself down and began rolling around in the snow, thrashing his limbs about and screaming “EL SEIZURE!!! NO ES BUENO!!!” in a Mexican accent.

  David Wong

  Elderly, Security Guards, Speak English

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.408, Titan Books

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• It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced....Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken pubic support....When the doubt or fear expressed concerns not the success of a particular enterprise but of the whole social plan, it must be treated even more as sabotage.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Independent, Expression, Support

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• It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Future Planning, My Future, Future Plans

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.46, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

  Philip Pullman

  Adults, Maps, Way

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• If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Couple, Care, Want

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• After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly. 'notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very wise of me.' She lifted the basket again, setting it on one hip. 'I supposed I won't see you for a while, so farewell, best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!' And with a cheery wink, she strolled off, leaving Eragon blinking and nonplussed.

  Christopher Paolini

  Wise, Farewell, Thinking

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.697, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

  Robin McKinley

  Odds, People, Needs

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• I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Ideas, Mind

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.299, Atlantic Books Ltd

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