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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

The contractor building from the Maryland side to the center of the bridge has a longer distance to go than those on the Virginia side and this has caused some slippage in the planned schedule.

Reed Winslow

We don't have anything new planned. We're just going to come out strong and improve on what we did last night. I thought we had a bad third quarter.

Cody Jones

I moved here in December, and one of the big selling points of my house was being able to take my kids to the park. I had planned on getting involved in getting the park cleaned up.

Rich Williams

We practiced defending the last two days and the boys executed exactly the way we planned. We really haven't been playing that well lately but this definitely makes us legit.

Jonas Honick

Everything is going as planned.

Anne Robert

This is a prime piece of real estate. It has to merge with what else is in the block and what is planned for a block.

Michael Rosenfeld

That's something we planned on using. We just weren't sure when we'd pull the trigger on it.

Tim Starkey

I think it's really up to businesses to come up with creative ways to attract customers. We have a lot of promotions planned.

Tom Craig

I played like garbage. From the start, the game wasn't what we planned it to be. As a team we never got into any type of flow.

Alex Walker

It's not just random breeding. A lot of this is planned according to species and available exhibit space.

Michelle Smurl

It's something that has been planned — that is quite obvious. But it's far too early to say anything [about] who it is who was behind it.

Sheila Dikshit

We do know that she killed five children; that it was very methodically and deliberately planned out. That's through her own words.

Kaylynn Williford

We have a lot of things planned for the evening.

Chuck Wagner

We are confident the O'Hare Modernization Program will withstand any and all judicial challenges and we will implement the program as planned.

Roderick Drew

This was a carefully planned heist.

Gerard Lynch

It wasn't planned; we just kind of worked in synch. Your emotions are just kind of going, and you're in the moment of the adrenaline rush. Just to hear them say he had a pulse makes you feel good.

Rob Lomanno

We've got a pretty aggressive commitment. We've planned to go up at this time for weeks.

Brian Brokaw

Rod Blagojevich is the most pro-abortion governor the state has ever had, constantly doing the bidding and advancing the agenda of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and NOW.

Irene Napier

Mr. Reed planned this entire event, he helped carry it out.

Jeff Paulsen

Demand for office space will be strong, and there will be minimal new construction. While several new office buildings are being planned, few will be completed by the end of 2006.

Lance Sallis

By [mid-November] you'll start to feel the inflection of the holidays, as long as you've planned well, it frees you up to start thinking about January and the first quarter.

Kamie Twomey

Big advertisers are looking more for stature and less for ubiquity. It is individual, well-planned and targeted campaigns that will be hitting our streets.

Nick Bell

There are no nuclear tests planned or desired.

Irene Smith

There must have been some personality clashes. There's no question in my mind that this was not a planned change.

Alan Vituli

The question with Iridium is it's an infrastructure play. These things generally need more capital than is planned.

Manish Shah

Don't make the planned tariff hike a scapegoat for the companies managerial problems. They said they could not afford it (the hike), but actually it s because they are facing various internal problems.

Industry Minister Fahmi Idris

What Microsoft is announcing today is only a small portion of what they have planned in the future - they have big plans and we're out there aggressively collecting the imagery.

Jamie Retterath

I never really planned on playing here, but I found out that there was a team here. I became interested and joined up. It has been a lot of fun to this point. While playing with this group of guys, I have continued to improve.

Kyle Stage

We planned on going inside no matter who was in the game, but once Coffin picked up her fourth foul, we took advantage.

Stefanie Pemper

This next fiscal year (2006-07), there's going to be roughly an $80,000 reduction. The planned reduction is so that the town contribution goes down to about $80,000.

Satish Hiremath

Abortion is a civil rights issue. The abortion industry targets minorities. Seventy-eight percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are located in minority neighborhoods.

Pam Fichter

We see no conflict. We have had our assembly annually, and it will definitely go ahead as planned this year, unless there is a hurricane or a flood. We don't plan things off the cuff, we plan in detail.

Karl Johnson

We planned on that happening, in terms of the way we prepared, the way we were approaching our Thanksgiving break as coaches.

Steve Kragthorpe

I definitely don't feel like I've had the kind of season I planned on this year. No excuses. I've had some things I've had to face that were a little more difficult than I thought, but I plan on being on top at the end of this weekend.

Mark Perry

I'm not sure what exactly the medical people have got planned for him, but I'd imagine he'd play a half to three quarters.

Alastair Clarkson

Although formal agreements will not be drafted until much later in this planned separation process, we believe that the planned treatment of these liabilities addresses any concerns that a current or potential claimant might have.

Sheri Woodruff

The team already knew about the planned departure of Coach Bonfiglio from the coaching staff, and this only adds to the kind of changes that we are likely to see.

Gordon Scharf

I was telling my mother that this isn't the Olympic dream I planned. We're just trying to get to the Olympics, and if we get to the Olympics then maybe we'll know how to pay for it.

Tim Nardiello

I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

Linda Blair

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

I hadn't ever really planned on owning a house again because I'm on social security.

Loretta Dahl

The Mets made it very clear that they're intent on winning right now, and they told Billy that they planned to add a power hitter. It's on display almost immediately after we left. It's like, 'Boom, holy cow,' they did it.

Bean Stringfellow

That is just they way Scott is. He is mentally tough and when things don't go as planned he just gets tougher. That is his M. O.

Paul Kujak

Our planned rotation worked exactly as planned.

Paul Mainieri

She had this house so well-planned.

Dan Mckinney

We're probably going to have a tree planted during the course of the day, but this event is planned as a daylong affair that should offer something for all of our citizens.

Mayor Nat Baker

We wanted to scale this up faster than originally planned.

Nick Sturiale

Because of our aggressive actions to reduce costs, we're also generating a higher level of savings than originally planned, and that should help us fully offset the additional inflationary pressure.

Thomas Falk

Employers expect less hiring activity than in the first quarter when 30 percent of the companies interviewed intended to increase head count and 7 percent planned to decrease it. Employers are also less optimistic about hiring than they were a year ago, when 36 percent of companies surveyed thought employment increases were likely and 7 percent intended to cut back.

Joseph Tuerff

We're aware of the planned activity. We have dedicated enough resources, and we're comfortable that no one is going to get hurt. We just want to make sure everyone obeys the law and everyone is safe.

Dan Ferrelli

So it looks like it all go on as planned.

John Skinner

About 800 malaria surveillance workers need to be recruited and we had planned to fill up the vacancies in March but could not do so.

Bhumidhar Barman

Leaves no doubt as to the way mass murder was planned and carried out.

James Foley

It is not dead at this time. The door is open that it might happen. But right now there are no planned flights to anywhere in the country for evacuees.

Wayne Sandford

It will be a compromise. The Union will be able to push through fewer reforms than they planned to, or than we need.

Uwe Andersen

We do not have any intelligence indicating this type of attack is planned in the United States.

Brian Roehrkasse

Damon's a very intelligent character, ... I certainly wouldn't bet against him having planned it all along.

Andy Ross

She's had some excellent outings, and she's had some not-so-good outings. Unfortunately, we have to put her in there, and she's getting more innings than I would have originally planned.

Leslie King

We're excited about the move. It's something we've planned for and worked toward for quite some time. We've actually been looking forward to it ever since we opened the detention center last May.

Sheriff Tyler Roden

Anybody else who's never gone through it, you look at all the glamour. I think I learned early on it's a business, a business where things don't always go as planned.

Neil Plank

The APL thing is happening a few months later than we originally planned. You can expect low end four- and eight-way systems will probably happen sooner. There's still a chance that will happen before the end of the year. High-end 16-, 32- and 64-way systems probably will happen in the early part of next year.

David Yen

This was very disappointing, especially since we had planned to win this. We thought we would win it if we had five champions and four placers, but we had four champions and only two placers.

Trent Miller

We planned on an even attack. We were hoping to move it a little more consistently. It just wasn't enough.

Dan Hinds

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold Toynbee

Smart hasn't developed as planned, and it's no secret the two sets of management didn't always see eye to eye.

John Lawson

Our friend had planned a party for Jess. Unfortunately, [Jess] passed away before we could have it. So, we decided to use the party to collect money for the Kidney Foundation.

Ron Orlosky

They were left without a prom date following the Ameritrade announcement. This planned acquisition demonstrates that this company is a long-term contender in a rapidly consolidating industry.

Robert Hansen

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

Robert Frank

During the last 24 hours we have executed a number of search warrants. A number of those search warrants because of the risk posed have involved pre-planned firearms operations.

Adrian Leppard

Dozens of new applications are now being planned. With the real world as your desktop, the potential is enormous.

John Ellenby

And her comment back was 'That doesn't surprise me. I hadn't planned to be the face of the campaign, but I'm going to talk about it.' And they said, 'That's what we want, governor,'.

Marty Brown

We have three miles of trail planned where people can run with great views and no traffic.

Terry Parish

If the promotions are planned then we can expect retailers to hit their numbers. It's a question of if the promotions were unplanned, what does that do to the bottom line?

Christine Chen

Things never go as planned. You always have to roll with it. I'm about as ready as I'm going to get. However ready that is, we'll find out. I don't have the answers for you. Nobody does.

J.p. Losman

Our planned investment is the strategic answer to this risk.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When I planned to go to Pakistan, Afghanistan.

Mounir El Motassadeq

We wanted to have food at the tailgate, so we bought food for 300 people. The food went quicker than expected because people were eating more than we planned for.

Kate Kusiak

He said he had something planned.

Jeffery Swofford

He who laughs last has planned to tell the story first.

Lane Olinghouse

We had planned all year to run lighter, lean and mean, and as we got closer and closer to Christmas, we felt with the economy, it was the right thing to do.

Tom Alfonsi

That is our current problem. At the moment, I assume that the German grand prix will go ahead as planned in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Dieter Gummer

The government has cracked down on us to foil our planned protest. Police have so far arrested up to 1,000 opposition members who have been mobilizing supporters to come to join the rally in Dhaka.

Abdul Jalil

If the past is any precedent, they have planned safe houses and lying low, letting the first dragnet pass over head.

Ken Conboy

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be changed, and we do regret that sincerely and clearly we do recognize there's been a lot of disruption.

Carol Marlow

There is something planned for everyone in the family. This fair and open house includes many facets of a healthy mind, body and spirit.

Sandy Koenig

I planned on getting 50 to 100 tickets, but I couldn't get that many. I'm speechless, to tell you the truth.

James Newson

Coke will be planning to do what it had planned to do before all the Quaker action started.

Manny Goldman

I think this is a big accomplishment. Everything went about as well as we planned. Once he made his move, he pretty much had it made.

Bob Holthus

Bob clearly was the ringleader. He planned it. He coordinated it.

Kevin Osterman

We have planned a multi-million dollar investment in this market to set up our distribution hub as well as investment in R&D.

Manish Gupta

The only way we have been able to do this is because Texas has planned and has drilled for years.

Robert Black

The defendant must have figured out Ressam planned to bomb something in the United States.

Robin Baker

It wasn't planned. It's something that we have if they don't happen to cover one of our gunners. It's a check on the line of scrimmage.

Lee Etzler

There's meetings planned for mid- to late May that will be dealing with the issue of how FEMA should be reformed and what options the House should consider.

Charlie Keller

We might retire a little earlier than originally planned, but for now, we'll keep working. We're simple people. That's the way we plan to keep it.

Louis Frankel

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.

Gloria Feldt

If a planned force contains around 3,000 men, then our contribution would be two or three companies.

Rudolf Scharping

As it turns out, I couldn't have planned anything better than this.

Van Cleve

He is entitled to his opinion. We can only say that we have no concrete evidence that an attack is planned.

Christian Sachs

We game-planned for this game, we were working on it for a week. We knew what we were getting into. They did exactly what I asked them to do.

Paul Vowinkel

We're just relaxing at the moment, and we'll probably do another single again one day, but nothing is planned for the near future.

Jenny Frost

People have stepped forward and covered the cost of the material things we had planned, so now everything goes toward the equipment.

Larry Steach

You can never live life counting on being drafted. I have always planned on finishing my degree and seeing where life takes me.

Ryan Cook

Our original application included projections we made during the summer of 2005. Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and the ever-increasing cost of fuel has made construction materials more expensive than we originally planned. We amended our original application to help balance the effect of those costs.

Paul Rakov

I hung in there longer than I had planned. But it seemed the economy was getting better, and I figured now is the time when I can go on to some other dreams.

Peter Giles

We're keeping an eye on it. It's planned to be fixed in the spring.

Guy Costa

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Mignon McLaughlin

I felt comfortable throughout the race and planned on making a move at Mile 8. When I pushed, things gradually opened up.

Lidiya Grigoryeva

I think it is a sad day for the company and we are going to miss him. But, typically of him, he has planned his own succession immaculately. We will have a dinner and a nice party for him.

Simon Wolfson

In the past, advertising campaigns have been planned long in advance. But now advertising has become increasingly responsive to pop culture, so the campaigns can rest on something that's surprisingly recent.

Lucian James

I think they have developed the character very nicely and it's gone exactly as it was planned to happen.

Brent Spiner

The first quarter results were in line with our plan for the quarter, although gross margins were somewhat stronger than planned.

Jerald Fishman

I had planned on coming back to get clothes for the next day, but I couldn't get in the building. It would have been nice if they had told us that.

Ben Pierce

Iran believes that negotiations with Russia will continue seriously and constructively, and as planned, they will be on February 16 in Moscow.

Javad Vaeedi

I turned 65 in November and I told the city then that I planned to retire in the spring.

Hugh Martin

This will work fine sitting out here by itself, but it was originally planned - and originally billed in the meetings - as the beginning of the future.

John Lees

Every step of my career has been planned to get to where I am. Now that I am finally here, I feel like it will go too fast.

William Campbell

They're spending more money than they originally planned. They're spending $20,000 to $50,000 more. That's significant money.

Keller Williams

Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot.

Robert Wise

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Tom Watson

No we didn't have it planned, but, it just worked out that way.

Shawn Mcelroy

I think the citizens felt they wanted more input on city decisions. I think they're uniformly concerned about development that hasn't been planned or as thoughtful as it could be.

Barbara Hoppe

Things happen and it just wasn't going the way I had planned it to go.

Bobby Washington

I had no worries about the gas, ... I knew it was going to go up, but I had this planned for months. I wasn't going to cancel all my plans because of the prices.

Carlos Perez

I think he has now bought himself some time to withdraw slowly. But that assumes everything goes as planned next year.

Lawrence Korb

I was really devastated. I had planned on going to the hospital that day to visit my daughter, and we literally had no money. To think that I couldn't visit my daughter that day just devastated me.

George Lennox

Within 30 days, if everything goes as planned, we should be ready for an announcement. It?s a name everybody is familiar with.

Malcolm Wilson

Most refineries are being planned or built quite far from consuming regions. The eight ships we have now give us a good foundation to expand further.

Billy Chiu

Is coming along just the way we planned.

Shayne Graham

The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund improvements to a roadway that has not been on any kind of planned improvement list.

Don Abell

I've just sort of gone with the flow and I ended up here. Crazy. I'm not going to start planning anything, my life is way better than anybody could have planned it.

Rachael Ray

I think it's very obvious that it was planned, to have six to go out together, ... Whether or not they had help on the outside we don't know, but we are pursuing that possibility.

Mike Haley

But I've always planned to give everyone a chance to play.

Jenny King

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Studs Terkel

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Walt Kelly

On-demand CRM may be a less-expensive risk, but it's just as big a risk. If you haven't planned everything out, customers will get lost. People will get fired. You will fail.

Paul Greenberg

We had to be flexible today because things didn't exactly go as planned. Considering the circumstances, it was nice to come out of it like we did.

Laura Smith

The mission has accomplished the planned experiments and accumulated valuable technical data and experiences for the development of China's manned space program.

Xinhua News Agency

I'm actually glad or sad to say that we planned the security for this event, with the prospects of war, at the orange level, ... The All-Star activities are going forward.

David Stern

He just visited my sister there for two weeks in January and loved it. He wasn't sure what he planned to do. He just saw a lot of opportunity there.

Peggy Warner

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The journey wasn't exactly how we planned it, but to win the West in this fashion means a whole lot.

Tina Slinker

I'm definitely looking forward to opening day at Delaware Park. When I came up to New York, we had planned on going back to Delaware, but I actually did better than I first anticipated. That made my decision kind of difficult. I feel pretty good about the business we had, and, hopefully, it will continue to open things up for the future.

Ramon Dominguez

This is organized crime at its top level. This was planned and executed with military precision.

Adrian Leppard

This does not have the earmarks of a long-planned management transition.

Carol Levenson

The community is planned for a person (to have everything they need for day-to-day living).

Brock Vardsveen

He went to make a statement as was planned. Based on those statements, the authorities are going to reach fair and correct conclusions.

Carlos Queiroz

We had a lot of stuff in storage we'd planned to use.

Sandy Soares

This is a long planned transition and it will be a seamless one.

Kathy Mckiernan

This will be in conjunction with the 300-percent tax increase demonstrations planned for the Sumter-U.S. 41 (intersection) and Sumter and Price Boulevard by the North Port Citizen's Alliance, ... It will make our demonstration look bigger.

Alice White

We had bought a house in The Villages, and planned to rent it out for a while. However, we had a day that was 40 below. My husband came home and announced that we were moving to Florida right away.

Patty Krueger

We have 22 additional store openings planned for 2006.

Larry Sutton

For many years, she was the only reason we (Planned Parenthood in Evansville) could stay open.

Betty Roberts

The most challenging moment in Korea was working on the planned acquisition of Korea First Bank in 2004.

Rick Pudner

If Microsoft introduces Windows XP as planned with the messaging applications and the media player bundled with it, it seems to me that companies like RealNetworks would have a basis for filing a suit.

Richard Mckenzie

Most of the Q1 openings were earlier than planned and have been performing better than anticipated in the short time they have been opened.

Finley Peter Dunne

Petrol bombs don't appear by accident, blast bombs do not appear by accident and certainly firearms have to be planned to be produced in the way they were produced.

Sir Hugh Orde

We weren't executing the way we planned, and it showed. We lost the game in the third quarter no matter what calls were made and what things happened before or after that.

Larry Hughes

God continues to show His awesome power each day Faith lives. She has been a blessing to many and a miracle to us. I cannot wait to see what God has planned for her life.

Gregory Rowland

He ran a little faster than we planned. The goal next meet is to really come back and go after it. When he gets back (to full strength) he'll improve our team. No doubt about it.

Merlin Lahm

I'm really looking forward to the day and the opportunity to meet and greet a number of people through an autograph session, along with the opportunity to express my appreciation to the fans who have supported me over the years. I'm just really excited about everything that is planned for that day.

Pat Day

We at the current time don't have any layoffs planned.

Roxanne Taylor

Your bohemians hang out in bookstores. That's the way God planned it.

Dennis Mcnally

We have it all in our strategic mix of professional alliances. We planned ahead of time the obstacles that we may encounter.

Wanda Shelley

If there are no tax cuts (planned for the budget) then that may be used an argument to cut rates.

Steve Barrow

They would always talk about what they did that night or what they planned to do that night. There was no focus. No one was really surprised [when we lost].

Vernell Brown

There are days I'll have everything planned out and something will break an hour before the show and change everything. There's not a huge focus. It all depends on what's going on.

Drake Anderson

I guess it just wasn't meant to be. I think I wrestled better my second match, but my first match didn't go the way I planned. It's all right.

Manju Jabbie

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

Robert Ashley

It is in our best interest that traffic flow and parking be properly planned. All factors are looked at and measured to the environmental impact.

Darren Mattix

We very much regret having to reduce our schedule to allow for the late delivery of new aircraft from Boeing (BA) and the planned retirement of our older 737-200's in December.

Michael Cawley

But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22.

Dan Abrams

It's awesome to make it here again; it really is. But not when we planned on doing a lot more.

Tara Grier

We continue to see great support for the attorney general all around the state from a variety of donors, and we feel this positions him to run the kind of issues-based, energetic campaign we've planned on.

Ryan Toohey

It's just a sneak attack. They were on a mission to kill Planned Parenthood, and they killed everybody else instead.

Claudia Stravato

My No. 1 goal coming in was to get a contract. I know what to expect from Day 1. Things, so far, have worked out the way I planned.

Ken Belanger

It's going to be pretty hopping, and we have a couple of surprises planned.

Jim Moorhouse

Those will be good tests for us. That tournament will have some good competition. We've got a full week planned.

Dave Lipe

The kids are just going to relax tomorrow. They're going to the beach tonight and we don't have anything big planned for tomorrow.

Kris Doorey

You're not well enough for the story they've planned.

Isabella Blow

After that, they planned to start seizing official buildings, and start blocking railway lines with the aim of completely paralyzing the state.

Stepan Sukhorenko

I would have loved to have been there with Danny, because we planned it for so long, but I'm not, and that's life.

Jeff Fenech

We planned to give away Mike's poster about two weeks ago, and it's amazing how it worked out. We're all proud of Mike.

Dan Chapman

We don't have any determination whether or not it was a planned trip, ... We're looking at those aspects.

Richard Garcia

Whatever he has planned, I don't want to see it. He can save it for next week.

Nick Harper

An essential component of the development and implementation is assessment of the impact of the QEP. This assessment consists of two parts, demonstrating completion of initiatives planned and demonstrating increases in student learning as a result of the QEP.

Valerie Whittlesey

Any action that may be planned will already be under way.

Phil Goff

I had that run planned last night, but I wasn't sure if I was ready to ride yet. But when I saw the people in the stands, that helped motivate me.

Dave Mirra

We are (also) making steady progress on the planned sale of certain international operations. We expect to reach some final decisions in this area over the next few months.

William Donaldson

We planned to be physical, but we didn't think Arapahoe would be that physical. They picked it up when they saw how rough we were going to be.

Brandon Runkle

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

Clay Aiken

A memorial service can be planned anywhere. You can have it in a park, a church, even an art gallery.

Lisa Carlson

We have to fly in doctors from Minnesota. There are no doctors in South Dakota who will work for Planned Parenthood or who will perform abortions.

Sarah Stoesz

He is making progress. No operations are planned in the near future, and the doctors feel he is right on track with his recovery.

Marsha Defilippo

That meant we were able to get on and evaluate the car properly. We initially planned to test the car for only one day but we lengthened that to the entire test, and the results were very positive.

Mike Gascoyne

This was the idea, to have an all-inclusive event. This is what we planned, and this is what we got.

Justin Daley

Having them (Planned Parenthood) handle sex-ed programs in public schools is not a wise investment for our tax investors.

Sen Gary Nodler

The living room actually turned out more elegant than we planned. Dan built bookcases on either side of the fireplace, added trim to the mantel and installed an electric fireplace.

Laryl Morrison