Top 100 Planned To Quotes
#1. I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.
Fred Kavli
#2. When I'd first brought it home from the thrift store, I'd planned to keep it in the closet I shared with Summer, But Jordis asked me to hang it in full view of the room because she liked the glitter.
Jennifer Echols
#3. We carried bottled water and day packs and cameras, except for Fred, who said he didn't believe in taking photographs; he planned to store his memories in his head, an idea I found incomprehensibly radical. My impulse to record was almost on par with my impulse to travel
Elisabeth Eaves
#4. They planned to know one another when they were ancient and gray-when we're doddering around with canes and have forgotten the names of our wives, we will still be Bassets,and still be young in our hearts.
E. Lockhart
#5. Edwards recalled that he once planned to coach until he was 60 as he signed an extension to his contract. I was about 62 before I ever remembered that's what I had set up ... Now I'm already making plans for next year and recruiting. That's the reason for this. I just feel good right now.
LaVell Edwards
#6. She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so has no trouble giving something trifling
Jennifer DuBois
#7. We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.
Amanda Lindhout
#8. Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.
Timothy Keller
#9. How can something so final happen in an instant? No preparation. No warning. No chance to do all the things you planned to do. No chance to say goodbye.
Jennifer Niven
#10. The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.
P. J. O'Rourke
#11. When Carlo turned sixteen, he was obliged by Italian law to serve two years of reserve military training. The bishop told Carlo that if he entered seminary he would be exempt from this duty. Carlo told the priest that he planned to enter seminary but that first he needed to understand evil.
Dan Brown
#12. She did not want to be that woman - the one of whom they spoke. She had never planned to be that woman. Somehow, it had happened, however ... somehow, she had lost her way and, without realizing it, she had chosen this staid, boring life instead of a different, more adventurous one.
Sarah MacLean
#13. How far can the airlines go?" replied a clearly irritated TWA spokesman when asked whether his employer planned to make any changes to its boarding procedures. "Restrict everyone from the terminal except those who have a ticket? Stop everyone from entering the airport area except those who
Brendan I. Koerner
#14. I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.
Rob Sheffield
#15. Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
Marcus Aurelius
#16. He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper.
Gena Showalter
#17. Ive never taken a vacation. Ive never been to Europe. Every time I planned to do something big, I got a job, and I could never pass that up.
Dan Lauria
#18. I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.
Balthus
#19. He planned to keep her around for a while. Like an eternity, or something a bit longer.
Olivia Cunning
#20. Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.
Enrique Vila-Matas
#21. I lit a cigarette and began puffing on it as I drank one quick beer after another. I was neither a drinker nor a smoker nor a fighter, but I had planned to be all three on this day.
Pat Conroy
#23. She certainly hadn't planned to sleep with anyone. But Mr. Tall, Dark, and Sexy had approached and it had been over for her.
Katie Reus
#24. I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
Clay Aiken
#25. I started in the late 70s, beginning of the 80s, and I think I started to sing and make music as a therapy for myself; I never planned to be an artist; sometimes when I think about it it's crazy that I'm here, and I'm touring, and I'm doing what I'm doing.
Mari Boine
#26. Jill continues: "I scored a top-10 shortstop by getting rid of two players I had planned to drop and, oh yes, a blow job that I never ever planned to give.
Matthew Berry
#27. All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.
Chris Weitz
#28. Someday she planned to paint he ceiling: Blue, with gold stars on it, whole constellations, and a section of the Milky Way.
Elizabeth Enright
#29. I know we planned to walk down to Schubert's for burgers, but can we go upstairs first?' She raised her eyebrows. 'What for?' 'Because I need to be inside you. Like ... now.
Lacey Alexander
#30. Jim Gilmore was the only GOP candidate not invited to the Republican debates tonight, but I saw that he actually planned to live-tweet it. When he heard that, Jeb Bush was like 'Can I do that? I don't want to be here!'
Jimmy Fallon
#31. As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#32. She skinned her hair back into a ponytail, a style she knew was probably too young for her, but she planned to drive with her windows open and she could ditch the elastic band once she got to the lake.
Joanne Fluke
#33. The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
Le Corbusier
#34. Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.
Jasmine Cresswell
#35. Pixar started as a company that sold a special computer for doing digital animation; it took a while till they got into the moviemaking business. Similarly, Starbucks originally sold only coffee beans and coffee equipment; they hadn't planned to sell coffee by the cup.
Reid Hoffman
#36. I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#37. At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.
Seth MacFarlane
#38. They wring their hands, should I do this, should I do that. They get seventeen different opinions. Then they do what they planned to do all along. If you give advice, they only blame you when it turns out bad.
Michael Chabon
#39. So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.
Pascal Mercier
#40. I had it all planned. Or, not planned exactly, but I'd planned to make plans. Plans were very much part of my plan.
Danny Wallace
#42. Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn
#43. The detective had been watching the video of Julie Mao's fight with her captors over and over again while they'd waited on Naomi and Amos to finish their work. It gave Holden the disquieting feeling that Miller was storing the footage in his head. Fuel for something he planned to do later.
James S.A. Corey
#44. When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!
Danica McKellar
#45. It's just as well I'm not claustrophobic. Even so, being held captive in a bottle was not how I'd planned to spend my weekend. It was also one of the most undignified positions I've ever been in; a water sprite can be squished down pretty small, but it doesn't mean we enjoy the process.
Deborah Jay
#46. One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.
Lyle Lovett
#47. If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.
Nevil Shute
#48. The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.
Mark Cane
#49. I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.
Smokey Robinson
#50. I'm not planning to do it again." Though to be honest he hadn't planned to do it in the first place. Which meant it could happen again without any planning at all.
Marshall Thornton
#51. The street resembled fairgrounds deserted in haste. There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.
Elie Wiesel
#52. This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.
John Blair
#53. From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
E.B. White
#54. All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.
Edward St. Aubyn
#55. I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.
Kimbra
#56. Confucius said, "Before embarking upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves." I planned to dig seven.
Lili St. Germain
#57. It's not like I planned to have a heart attack, you know? I wasn't thinking to myself, 'Hmm, you know what James? Today seems like the perfect afternoon for a myocardial infarction.
John Bowen
#58. I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.
Creed Bratton
#59. I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.
Robert Sternberg
#60. When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.
Robert Breault
#61. We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
Bill Gates
#62. The husband has the right to avenge himself if his wife is unfaithful. The village has known for many moons that White Eagle planned to steal Prairie Flower away from Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf has learned of this and punished his wife.
Stephanie Grace Whitson
#63. I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
Eric Cantona
#64. She planned to make a roast beef, a pile of mashed potatoes, corn- then mounted it into a bowl and drown it in gravy. Some people ate ice cream or pie when depressed; she went for the warm comfort food she learned to make in her grandma's kitchen.
Amy E. Reichert
#65. You're sleeping here?" He'd originally planned to just cuff her to him but now she'd proved the cuffs were useless and she didn't seem to be going anywhere.
"Well, I'm not sleeping on the floor. Unless you're worried about me killing you in your sleep?
Katie Reus
#66. Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
Don DeLillo
#67. Letters from the first were planned to guide us into Fairy Land.
Andrew Lang
#68. I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.
Maria Bello
#69. She planned to do everything she had fantasized about in their time apart,
everything that she had promised herself she would do if she got him back. It would take a lifetime to discover him.
Evelyn Pryce
#70. I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
Gabrielle Giffords
#71. When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.
Jenny McCarthy
#72. They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.
Gloria Whelan
#73. She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her forever."
Sebastian from Demon Possession
Kiersten Fay
#75. several old movies where the boy tossed pebbles at the girl's window. So I planned to use that approach. But
Michael Wolf
#76. In the summer of 1913, Kafka bangs endlessly on about 'necessity,' that favorite concept of every German since Hegel who ever planned to do something morally dubious.
James Hawes
#77. I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.
Hermann Maier
#78. When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.
Geddy Lee
#79. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past
G.K. Chesterton
#80. I reckoned they had probably begun to pour out their hearts and entrust each other with the subjects of the plays and novels they had written or planned to write. It was customary after serious drinking.
Ismail Kadare
#81. All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
Ann Brashares
#82. Maybe the relationships we can't get over are more about the grief of losing the precious dreams we'd created with that person, attached to that person, planned to share with that person than because of the person themselves?
Claire Garber
#83. The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.
Kate Elliott
#84. My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
Safra A. Catz
#85. The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.
Frank Shorter
#86. Why are we talking about this?" Tsukuru said, half to himself, trying to sound upbeat. "I've never talked to anybody about this before, and never planned to." Sara smiled faintly. "Maybe you needed to talk with somebody. More than you ever imagined.
Haruki Murakami
#87. I HAD PLANNED TO GIVE the phone back this morning. No, really. I did. Then again, I also planned to finish college. And travel the world.
Vi Keeland
#88. I wondered at the way we all change, all the outside forces that press and mold and push us into people and things we hadn't planned to be. Maybe it happened so gradually that by the time we noticed, it was too late to be anything else.
Mary E. Pearson
#89. To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.
Jason Derulo
#90. Remember? In the car. You told me that you planned to marry one man, and that one man would be me. I agree with you. I think you should marry me.
Belle Aurora
#91. Dear Artie: "The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. "Roy
John Pearce
#92. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
Sue Monk Kidd
#93. The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor.
Rob Simmons
#94. You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.
Cassandra Clare
#95. I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
Wallace Shawn
#96. ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.
Oral Roberts
#97. I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.
Brenda Perlin
#98. God reveals everything He has planned to people that knows Him and has a close relationship with Him.
Sunday Adelaja
#99. Originally, I had planned to study tourism and revolution, which seemed to me to name the two poles of modern consciousness--a willingness to accept, even venerate, things as they are on the one hand, a desire to transform things on the other.
Dean MacCannell
#100. At Monticello he planned to return to farming and gardening with passionate zeal.
Jon Meacham
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