Prepared Quotes
1875 Prepared quotes by 1443 unique authors
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As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and…
— Arundhati Roy
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A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared…
— Maya Angelou
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Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was…
— Gregory Maguire
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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among…
— Wendell Berry
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Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you…
— Monica Ali
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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God…
— Anthony Trollope
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I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
— Ayn Rand
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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I've always admired people who are over-prepared.
— Randy Pausch
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped…
— Gregory Maguire
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Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark.…
— Thomas S. Monson
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A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
— Jim Butcher
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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the…
— Ronald Reagan
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I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for…
— Jodi Picoult
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there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
— Stephen King
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There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
— Maya Angelou
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I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
— Vita Sackville-West
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