Being Prepared Quotes (page 5)

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• boys
• preparations
• only

My motto is “Be Prepared.” I am told this is also the motto of the Boy Scouts, but, if so, this only proves that they were acting according to my motto earlier than I. David Mamet

• manly
• life death
• death

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. Ellis Peters

• simple
• house
• love

Bluntly and quietly, in a series of simple, forthright sentences, she dismantled the architecture of unhappiness that had been growing up around us for the past several days. She was calling from the office she said, and had to talk in a low voice, 'but if you can hear me, Sid' she began, 'there are four things I want you to know. First, I haven't stopped thinking about you since I left the house this morning. Second, I've decided to have the baby, and we're never going to use the word... Paul Auster

• believe
• will
• believes

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. Nelson Mandela

• waves
• transform
• be prepared

one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. Elizabeth Gilbert

• humanity
• manly
• them

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. H. L. Mencken

• fighting
• understanding
• decision

... a country where we seldom understand that we must be prepared to fight for issues bigger than an umpire's decision at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Peter Carey

• love
• free
• them

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free. Paulo Coelho

• sometimes
• happens
• willfulness

Sometimes I have these premonitions and I don't forget them, so I will be prepared when they happen. Isabel Allende

• life
• manly
• durability

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. Menander

• learning
• tree
• helpful

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on. J. K. Rowling

• best
• thoughts
• he

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. andb) It is best to be prepared. Arundhati Roy

• personal
• personality
• believe

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it. Hillary Clinton

• bear
• flower
• sacrifice

Has it occurred to you, Kate, that she is placing you under an obligation?"Oh, yes, indeed it has, and it is crushing me!" she said earnestly. "If only there were some way of requiting her - not arranging flowers, or entertaining Sir Timothy, or bearing Torquil company, but a big thing! Something that was vital to her, or - or even something that entailed a sacrifice! But there isn't anything that I can discover."There was a pause, during which he frowned down at his well-kept finger-nails.... Georgette Heyer

• winning
• leaving
• sometimes

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. Van Morrison