Plans Quotes - Page 26

• So,uh, where am I, exactly ? And what do you plan on doing with me ?" "You're at Underworld General Hospital. As you can probably guess, we specialize in nonhuman medical care. Our location is secret, so don't ask." "UGH ? Your hospital is called 'ugh' ? Oh, that's precious.

  Larissa Ione

  Secret, Care, Ugh

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• you plan to fail if you fail to plan

  James Patterson

  Failing, Ifs

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• But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

  Meg Cabot

  Perfect, Waiting, Firsts

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

  Libba Bray

  Done, Half, Littles

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.134, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.

  Taylor Swift

  Love Is, Organization, Ideas

  "The Single Girl's Guide To Winning At Life By Taylor Swift" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. February 14, 2015.

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• I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

  J. K. Rowling

  Knowing, Mind, Might

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• I assume this is all part of some brutally simplistic plan you've thought up?" "Yes." "Oh, good.

  Eric S. Nylund

  Assuming

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• The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?

  Janet Fitch

  Blue, Sky, Silence

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• The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

  John Pilger

  Dream, War, Party

  "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.

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• If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme

  Mary Hoffman

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?

  Rick Riordan

  Games, Jason, Three

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• He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Reading, Order

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• You;re colling me, So i fugure you must not hate me anymore. dOES THIS MEAN YOU WANNA GO OUT? iI'm free tonight. I mean , I have plans, but i can break them. For you. Brandon, you kidnapped me. And then you made the only person I'll ever love in my life hate me. I completely despise you. So..., I take that as a no, you do not want to go out with me tonight.

  Meg Cabot

  Hate, Mean, Doe

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• If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Voice, Towels, Parenthood

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

  Jasper Fforde

  Jail, Giving, Soul

  "The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next". Book by Jasper Fforde, May 1, 2009.

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• Eve: "She had big plans for me. Kind of a pet, I imagine. Like William. Her little trained dog. And with you dead, she figured I'd inherit all your goodies. You're not going to do that to me are you?" Roarke: "What, die?" Eve: "Leave me all this stuff." Roarke: "Only you would be annoyed by that.

  Nora Roberts

  Dog, Annoyed, Pet

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• I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sleep, Soldier, Battle

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• You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Giving, Pulse, Thumbs

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “True To Form”, p.283, Random House

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• Just because I've walked into this crazy fantasy doesn't mean I can just abandon my other plans, much as I might want to.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Crazy, Mean, Want

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.270, Macmillan

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• Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Thinking, Long, Matter

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• In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Ignorance, Together, Panic

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• Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Angel, Journey, Sick

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 26, 2011

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• Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.

  Lee Child

  Car, House, Needs

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.1075, Delacorte Press

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• Athena always, always has a plan.

  Rick Riordan

  Athena

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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