"...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies)."

--- Ally Carter

"Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11)."

--- Ann Voskamp

"The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own."

--- Aristotle

"Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own."

--- Aristotle

"I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself."

--- Yingluck Shinawatra

"It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable."

--- William Penn

"God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not."

--- Swami Vivekananda

"The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility."

--- Christian Harrison

"A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things."

--- Clyde Tombaugh

"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

--- Confucius

"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."

--- Stephen Breyer

"I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes."

--- Stephan Jenkins

"...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing."

--- Soren Kierkegaard

"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief."

--- Sigmund Freud

"So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?"

--- David Alan Harvey

"Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards."

--- Denis Waitley

"My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best."

--- Donald Trump

"No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one."

--- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter."

--- Emo Philips

"There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings."

--- Rajneesh

"Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy - all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image."

--- Rajneesh

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

--- Flannery O'Connor

"Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations."

--- Paul McKenna

"Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause."

--- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice."

--- Narendra Modi

"What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!"

--- Henry David Thoreau

"The kingdom of God is a society of the best of men, working for the best ends, according to the best methods. It's law is one word - Loyalty; It's gospel one message - Love. If you know anything better, live for it; if not, in the name of God and of humanity, carry out Christ's plan"

--- Henry Drummond

"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."

--- Mortimer Adler

"These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals."

--- Herbert Read

"Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light."

--- Honore de Balzac

"The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks."

--- J. R. R. Tolkien

"If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that."

--- Jaggi Vasudev

"You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs."

--- Jane Roberts

"Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to."

--- Marine Le Pen

"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."

--- Jean-Jacques Annaud

"Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws."

--- John Adams

"We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values."

--- John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

"I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know."

--- John Perry Barlow