It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.
The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.
The best time to plan a tree was twenty years ago; the second best time is now.
..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.
We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make
She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn’t there a box showing a terrified teen?
But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to .
His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn’t read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn’t intend to tell me anything either.
She’d die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
Prayer works (unless God has a different plan for you, that is different than what you want). Pray now. It works best if God is undecided.
Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens--for good or bad it simply happens. - Katrina Svensen
My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel...
My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.
I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
I breastfed my son for 13 months, and I plan to do at least the same with my daughter. That's an amazing thing for babies, but it's also really good for the mother because it regulates your body again after pregnancy.
