“But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.”
Source: Half Broke Horses
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“I need to be myself / I can't be no-one else
"You can have it all but how much do you want it?"”
Supersonic
Definitely Maybe (1994)

Variant: The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant.
Source: Oblivion

“No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.”
On Nicolas Anelka, (July 1999) http://archive.is/20130109094446/markarbouine.tripod.com/quotes/quotes3.htm

“No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.”
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 37 (p. 395)

On the the title of the Death Cab for Cutie album Plans, as quoted in Mix online (1 January 2006) http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_death_cab_cutie_2/index.html
Kennedy did not turn around.
“It takes a great deal of faith in mankind to keep from directing it the way we think it should go,” he said at last.
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 92.

Closing remark - Aslaksen's last recorded message
No difficulties (Stavanger, 18 January, 1976)