Quotes & Sayings About Plans Backfiring

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For — George Bernard Shaw

He thinks I'm beautiful and told me so. He thinks I'm funny because I make him laugh all the time. He's fantastic in bed and when I say that not once, not even once have we been together where he's not taken care of me and it's not unheard of he takes care of me twice in one go. — Kristen Ashley

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline. — Danielle Trussoni

It's well known that he who returns never left — Pablo Neruda

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart ... no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them. — Robert A. Heinlein

You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups ... Children are not the problem here ... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. — Heraclitus

Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth! — Gerald Massey

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write. — Harper Lee