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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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• The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires]

  Steven Moffat

  Smart, Angel, Gun

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• Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked and to stand right side up in an upside down world. If we don't do that we'll never be able to escape. We'll never be able to think. And thinking is the only way we'll be able to plan an escape." -Gylfie

  Kathryn Lasky

  Jobs, Moon, Thinking

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “The Capture”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

  Lee Child

  Hoping For The Best, Worst, Ultimatum

  Lee Child (2014). “Personal (with bonus short story Not a Drill): A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.179, Delacorte Press

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• Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?” asked Becks. “Is it a union requirement or something?

  Mira Grant

  Media, Evil, Needs

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.170, Hachette UK

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• Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

  B. F. Skinner

  Father, Responsibility, People

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• that was the plan? part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints' were involved. it was a brilliant idea. and we only got really cute well-made collars. this is my favorite. we had the tag engraved to say BUBBA.

  Michele Jaffe

  Cute, Dog, Believe

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• You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

  Sarah MacLean

  Challenges, Silent, Lord

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Men, Sweat, Bread

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Principles, Compromise

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• My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a mystery. Some possibility that included her--separate from her present life and without its limitations. A secret. Riding in the car with her father, she would look out at other cars full of people she'd never seen, any one of whom she might someday meet and love, and would feel the world holding her making its secret plans.

  Jennifer Egan

  Father, Sleep, Night

  Jennifer Egan (2009). “Look at Me: A Novel”, p.73, Anchor

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• The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Loss, Love Is, Perfect

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.57, Seal Press

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• I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Beautiful, Fashion, Loss

  Julia Cameron (2007). “The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size”, p.38, Penguin

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• That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

  Cressida Cowell

  Hey, Hiccups, Terrible

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• Look, I'm not ready for you," Min said. "I'm not prepared. I don't have any defenses when you're around. I make these plans and I mean it, I really do, and then I kiss you because I'm crazy about you which would be fine if I didn't fall in love with you but there that is, just standing there, and you know it, you know you've got me.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Love You

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• I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Love Is, Ideas

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• I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

  J. K. Rowling

  Luck, Best Laid Plans, Chance

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.17, Pottermore

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• Anyone who wasn't half-stoned on pain meds would have instantly realized what a really bad idea this plan was, but since that didn't include me, I didn't worry about it.

  Josh Lanyon

  Pain, Ideas, Worry

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.64, Samhain Publishing

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• It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.

  Hilary Mantel

  Life, Years, Six Months

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• I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and says he has dinner plans with you, goes off with a beautiful woman, saying he’ll be back directly, then makes you wait half an hour because he’s kissing the woman in the alley. Is that betrayal?” “Oh, Lord.” Eldric tossed back his wine.

  Franny Billingsley

  Beautiful, Betrayal, Wine

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.161, Penguin

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• There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Inspiration, Heart, Ambition

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.110, Macmillan

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• I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.

  Nalini Singh

  Cat, Keeping Secrets, Looks

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• Your master plan has holes big enough to drive a truck through.

  Ilona Andrews

  Truck, Enough, Holes

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.193, Penguin

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