Plans Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• For the past few years, I've been on a quest for a good old-fashioned date, the kind where the guy calls, makes the plans, picks you up in a car that's not his dad's or his other girlfriend's, and takes you somewhere that shows he put thought into what you might like, not what he might get off on like the latest how-many-naked-boobs-can-we-cram-into-this-movie-to-disguise-the-complete-lack-of-plot movie. I'm looking for the kind of date that starts with good conversation , has a sweet and satisfying middle, and ends with long, slow kisses and the dreamy feeling that you're walking on clouds.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Girlfriend, Dad

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.243, Dell

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• And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

  Ralph Ellison

  Sight, Mind, Patterns

  Ralph Ellison (1952). “Invisible Man”

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• You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

  Gayle Forman

  Wish, The End Of The Day, Mia

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.82, Penguin

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• The dreams that you hold for your future are what you dream about at night. They’re always at the back of your mind. They’re what your heart desires. They keep you going. Accept reality and have a backup plan, but always follow your dreams no matter what.

  Miley Cyrus

  Dream, Heart, Night

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• It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

  Melina Marchetta

  Want, Matter, Firsts

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• "Aren't you frightened?" Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. She looked away. "Yes," she finally said, "I'm frightened all the time." "Then why don't you act like it?" "I do. I just do it in private." "Because you don't trust me?" "No," she said, "because I know you're frightened, too."

  Nicholas Sparks

  Wise, Trust Me, Lord

  "A Walk To Remember". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1999.

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• Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

  Douglas Adams

  Work Out, Mad, Twenties

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.330, Pan Macmillan

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• He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.

  Suzanne Collins

  Letting Go, Hands, Doubt

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.240, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow

  Simone Elkeles

  Real, Nice, Hero

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Sounds like you've got it all planned out." "Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes." "And that's a lot." I laugh. "It sure is," she says with a sigh.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Shoes, Laughing, Sound

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• People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

  Howard Schultz

  Responsibility, People, Needs

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• Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

  Ted Dekker

  Giving Up, Perfect, Chocolate

  Ted Dekker (2011). “The Priest's Graveyard”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

  H. G. Wells

  Eye, Space, Mind

  1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.1.

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• Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kids, Body, Motto

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