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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.


Ann Patchett

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And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.
RACHEL WARD Had not enough gone wrong?
BROM Things have not gone as we had planned or expected nor as we were told by you, Gen. Myers,
JOHN MCCAIN But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as ...
JOHN LANCHESTER I would have been able to finish higher up had things gone our way.
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA Things happen and it just wasn't going the way I had planned it to go.
BOBBY WASHINGTON It's the memories we'll be walking for. Just because the water's gone, doesn't mean the problem is g...
HANS PRELL I would rather have gone right ahead. I wish they had gone ahead with it.
DAVID LATHREM I walked out of the government to fight and put right what had gone wrong.
DR KIZZA BESIGYE During inspiration, you lose some quotes and they are gone for life. :) You didnt let it LIVE :(..
DAR ADLEY He said the doctors had done all they could. I said, 'What do you mean, all they could?' I just coul...
JACKIE MARKRAY I felt like I was cold because the hand had gone numb.
BEN WEBER I knew something was wrong this morning because he always forewarns me when he's going to be absent ...
DONNA JONES You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.
C.S. LEWIS I think it could have gone either way. We just outlasted them, we had more left than the Thunderbird...
BILL TORNI Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them.
JOHN STEINER People were always trying to fix the past. They deliberately, often unconsciously, relived events si...
ANNE FRASIER I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone alo...
AGYNESS DEYN I had gone in my own pickup truck because I was taking the extra utensils.
JERRY NELSON Just because all kids can attend public schools, just because they can work anywhere, doesn't mean t...
RODERICK JONES It was a smart call because had I missed and they had gone down boom, boom, boom, they could have go...
JASON ELAM We just showed up today. Emotions were gone. They left everything they had on the ice last night.
JAY HAUGLAND I had never gone first.
JEN NICHOLS After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle ...
SALLY RIDE I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have...
JACOB ARTIST It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.
BEN BRADLEE I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
RANDY HOUSER Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
JODI PICOULT The first time I saw him, I had gone to scout a real good linebacker that University had. I asked th...
BOBBY BURTON I think they have developed the character very nicely and it's gone exactly as it was planned to hap...
BRENT SPINER I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and...
SARAH PAULSON It's good for them to come out the way they did. I am just proud the way they showed up today. I had...
JAY HARPER This is one of those cases where the community won't realize what they had until it's gone, and now ...
DAVE KLINK (The vote) might have gone the other way if people had listened to the presentation.
KATHY DOOLEY It was heartbreaking. That call could have gone either way. They had the momentum after that, but we...
BEAU ALBRECHTSON They live on the same street. They had gone to a neighborhood hang out of his and had dinner.
LESLIE BENNETTS There are things that have gone -- sets and props from The Wrong Trousers.
NICK PARK The shop had just opened and the handcuffs were all gone the first day.
ASSIA TSCHERNOOKOFF It could have gone either way. It was close. I knew she had to be in the top two.
GEOFF STUMP Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experienc...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropo...
DANIEL WOODRELL It used to be 80 percent of the industry had a 14 hour duty day. But now most of that is gone. It's ...
DUANE WOERTH They (the orphans) thought they had gone to Disneyland. They were excited to see American visitors.
DEANN SAMPLEY I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
SYLVIA PLATH Liberals are politically correct, they support many groups and some of them they controversial each ...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI All that you thought you had secure is now gone, just like that!
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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they’re wrong!
AULIQ ICE That's what he's supposed to do. We expect that from him. This game could've gone either way, I just...
LARRY WRIGHT I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the...
PAT ROBERTSON If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.
JOHNNY MILLER They had us on our heels, and I think we just kind of rolled over. Not necessarily give up, but when...
ADAM HALUSKA Yeah. Just think, if I had been there the speeches would have gone on even longer. Maybe two hours!
MARIO CUOMO If she had just gone home I think she would have been remembered importantly, but she didn't just go...
STEPHEN HESS If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.
GAL GADOT Never lament what gone wrong yesterday, gone is gone, but with a lesson of something good for tomorr...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that i...
TONYA HARDING I was surprised that the water didn't come up after the rains we had Monday. But so far, things have...
BUD GARSKE It's a travesty because he was gone. I mean there was nobody on that side of the field.
DON BREAUX Having gone through that in my own life, I know writers can capture things in the right way or the w...
TARA REID The surviving victim said they didn't do anything to provoke the shooting — they had just gone up ...
INSPECTOR DENNIS MAFFEI The surviving victim said they didn't do anything to provoke the shooting — they had just gone up t...
INSPECTOR DENNIS MAFFEI There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college ...
JACK LONDON Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfri...
BECCA FITZPATRICK But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave a...
AMANDA GRACE He had gone to a house and knocked on the door and they reported it.
BOB MERRILL It was an adventure. The funny part is, so many things could have gone wrong. It was just like someb...
MADELEINE QUAYAT Bobby was there by himself, downstairs and had gone to sleep and had gone to bed and got excited by ...
RONALD BOURGET When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They p...
JACK FERGUSON Students can nominate anyone on the [URI] staff. We've had students nominate the janitor in their bu...
JOY LEWIS He just could not miss. He had a hand in his face a few times. It's a tough loss, it could have gone...
ANDY WERNER Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?
SARAH DESSEN These would have gone off. They weren't duds. They would have caused serious harm had they exploded.
JEFF LANZA These would have gone off. They weren't duds, ... They would have caused serious harm had they explo...
JEFF LANZA We just had a revaluation here folks. Has your valuation gone down by a quarter, I don't think so.
CHARLES KENT I think they had so much adrenaline going when they lifted, they just wanted to get up there and do ...
KERRY JOHNSON We've been consistent with the fund raising. We're a little over $3.5 million, so it's gone well, an...
LYNN KING Our game plan had gone completely out the window.
BILL KINSHERF When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock...
HENRY ALLINGHAM Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol...
AARON SWARTZ The days of big money are gone, and the days of big-money production companies are gone. The big mon...
ART MCMASTER Thy heart had gone too far in this world, and think thou to comprehend the way of the most High?
COMPTON GAGE Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't nec...
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because o...
R. C. SPROUL If they would have had 5 more minutes, it probably would have (gone) into overtime.
ERIC WEDDLE I scheduled a tough schedule because I felt like the girls needed to be challenged. They have come a...
IAIN JONES If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
VIN DIESEL I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
GLENN CLOSE I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
DORIS DAY On trips gone by I had to do everything by long-hand.
JAMES SUMMERS If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
CLINT EASTWOOD The strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish has not necessarily gone away,
SIMON PHIPPS It just as easily could have gone the other way.
DON ZIMMER They had gone out Saturday morning, and the weather was fairly decent. They were due back in Saturda...
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ANN RICHARDS Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER