Plans Quotes - Page 34

• Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

  Bear Grylls

  Luck, Moments, Depends

  Bear Grylls (2012). “Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Plans are invitation to disappointment.

  Derek Landy

  Disappointment, Invitations

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• I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

  Suzanne Collins

  Next, Happens

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• When a man plans, a woman laughs.

  David Wong

  Men, Laughing

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• Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Secret, Plot, Behinds

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• I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Blue, Promise

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• The truth has a way of changing people's plans.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Way, Insurgent

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• Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust.” She leaned forward. “Personal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. The second requires proof, whether it be upfront or covert.” Awkwardly, she patted my hand. “His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

  Alison Goodman

  Powerful, Father, Men

  Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.143, Penguin

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• This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.

  Amanda Hocking

  Fire, Two, Zombie

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• One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Government, People

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Actually, Katniss isn’t complaining because she has no intention of staying with the “Star Squad,” but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stars, Squad, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.257, Scholastic Inc.

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• You’re too visible, Albert,” Hadrian explained. “Can’t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your eyelids or pull off your fingernails until you tell them what we’re up to.” “But if they torture me, and I don’t know the plan, how will I save myself?” “I’m sure they’ll believe you after the fourth nail or so,” Royce said with a wicked grin.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Believe, Cutting, Wicked

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.25, Ridan Publishing

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• So,” Royce said, “you want us to escape from this prison, kidnap the king, cross the countryside with him in tow while dodging soldiers who I assume might not accept our side of the story, and go to another secret prison so that he can visit an inmate?” Arista did not appear amused. “Either that, or you can be tortured to death in four hours.” “Sounds like a really good plan to me,” Hadrian declared.“Royce?” “I like any plan where I don’t die a horrible death.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Kings, Soldier, Secret

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.58, Ridan Publishing

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• Been meddling, have you?” Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. “You must admit they didn’t have much in the way of a defense plan,” Hadrian said, pausing to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Royce smiled at him. “You just can’t help yourself, can you?

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Sweat, Hadrian, Defense

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• But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Silly, Mean, Wind

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• This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

  Rumi

  Quiet, Speak, Knows

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Who Says Words With My Mouth?”

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• For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hands, Unseen, World

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Missing, Ingredients, Danger

  Barbara Tuchman (2014). “The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War”, p.295, Penguin UK

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• Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

  Winston Churchill

  Essentials, Littles, Planning

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• Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.

  David Levithan

  Chance, Said

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.174, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Fate has a strange way of making plans.

  David Levithan

  Fate, Way, Strange

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.198, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.

  Bob Goff

  Needs

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• ...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

  Bob Goff

  Land, Differences, Making A Difference

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I already have a plan." Celie said, raising her hand as she would with her tutor. "Do you?" Rolf's eyes gleamed. "What is it?" "I don't think you'll like it, Lilah." Celie apologized straightaway. "It involves manure...a great deal of manure." Rolf started to laugh again.

  Jessica Day George

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.' 'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira 'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.

  Dan Wells

  Kira, Strategy, Made

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