Planning Something Quotes

#1. Your traveling companion, the soldier, is well trained. The two of you were planning something, weren't you?"
"Planning what? An evil scheme to steal all the Big Macs left in the McDonalds along 1-99?

Summer Lane

#2. Planning something never seems risky. It's in the execution where all the risk comes." "And

David Baldacci

#3. I'll always say my prayers ... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

Johanna Spyri

#4. Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look."
"I don't have an I'm-planning-something look."
"Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit together and your lips press together and - "
"Do you have a pen?" she asked him.

Rick Riordan

#5. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. Any horse that was grinning was planning something.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Maybe he's just lonely." "No way did he kidnap Jace off that roof because he's desperately in need of a bromance," said Isabelle. "He's planning something." They

Cassandra Clare

#7. A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

Sarah Dessen

#8. Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Richard Paul Evans

#9. What are you planning?" "Something very stupid, I think.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. So planning something big."
"If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it."
"It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them.
"You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained.

Ridley Pearson

#12. It's an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid," said Locke. "Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You'll find out

Scott Lynch

#13. They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.

Kristin Chenoweth

#14. On evenings like this, when the streets below were filled with couples strolling, and laughing people spilled out of pubs, already planning meals, nights out, trips to clubs, something ached inside me; something

Jojo Moyes

#15. The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her

Mother Teresa

#16. There is something wrong with the world if I'm writing a book outside and people think I'm planning an attack due to my skin color.

Daniel Marques

#17. Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Joe Hill

#18. We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

Brenda Ueland

#19. I regret ... " Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and ... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."
Her.

Veronica Roth

#20. Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds we're planning for the other life promised by Allah.

Shems Friedlander

#21. I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

Stephen Bayley

#22. This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.

Antonio Banderas

#23. People plan, God laughs, or something like that.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.

Liane Moriarty

#25. Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

John Harvey-Jones

#26. It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.

Steven J. Carroll

#27. I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#28. People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy ... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

Daniel Kahneman

#29. A great way to get rid of stress is, every once in a while, do something totally different and unexpected without any prior planning.

Franklin Gillette

#30. Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.

Reid Hoffman

#31. Prince Brigan. And where's your Lady?"
"In her history lesson. She went without complaint and I've been trying to prepare myself for what it might mean. Either she's planning to bribe me about something or she's ill.

Kristin Cashore

#32. The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

Eric Clapton

#33. I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.

Chris Matthews

#34. Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're planning and plotting, but happiness is here, it's a choice, day to day.

Cathy Lamb

#35. CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that's just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that's a conspiracy.

Lois Lowry

#36. It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

M.B. Dallocchio

#37. I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

David Levithan

#38. Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, that the object we're buying is going to make us happy.

Celso Cukierkorn

#39. I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in

Drake

#40. All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

Jodie Foster

#41. Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Leon Krier

#42. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

Orson Scott Card

#43. Yeah, I definitely pulled something in my back. I woke up in agony. So I took a break from rover planning. Instead, I spent the day taking drugs and playing with radiation.

Andy Weir

#44. A good plan allows for plenty of spontaneity and room for change - but without a plan at all, it's difficult to work toward something significant over time.

Chris Guillebeau

#45. Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.

Sasha Alexander

#46. Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Lakein

#47. Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

John Lennon

#48. One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

Paul Parker

#49. You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.

Peter Scott

#50. I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

Deborah Harkness

#51. The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

Constantinos C. Markides

#52. It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#53. The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.

Rush Limbaugh

#54. SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers?
Those are things I'm not good at.
Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something?
Piece o'cake

James Patterson

#55. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling - something

O. Henry

#56. Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.

Catherine Bell

#57. I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

Bipasha Basu

#58. Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch; Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions. If you have got to think about something - Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death .

Sogyal Rinpoche

#59. "I've always been a proponent of "if you're going to do something, do it right." I applied that across all aspects of my shooting - planning, setting up shoots, getting up early, working with athletes and models, working with clients etc. Just being a pro about it."

Jimmy Chin

#60. There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

Paul Stanley

#61. The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

P. J. O'Rourke

#62. Lettie Pepeprcorn!' She hissed. 'Stop worrying and do something useful.

Sam Gayton

#63. The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse ... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.

Lamar Odom

#64. I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and ... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.

Veronica Roth

#65. I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

Ben Chandler

#66. ...they're currently planning to ram something unpleasant up our buttocks, probably a dildo covered in chili.

Christopher G. Nuttall