Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
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These beautiful plans, we have to forget.
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If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.
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Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
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All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
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There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
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The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.
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There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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Don't 'just do it.' First, plan it, then do it.
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I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in.
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There is no need for the Russian state to hold such large stakes and we do intend to put our plans into practice. It is not about whether we want it or not, it is about this being practical or not and the best timing. In general, it is practical from at least one point of view - from the point of view of structural changes in the economy.
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To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?
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Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
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A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.
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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
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Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to human beings is not examined in school?
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
