Prepared Quotes

1875 Prepared quotes by 1443 unique authors

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do. — Kenneth Oppel
God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us. — Paulo Coelho
Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again." "Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis.… — Megan Whalen Turner
As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent. — Stephenie Meyer
You need to be prepared to move.” “Why?” I sat up and looked out the windshield, straight into a raging sandstorm. “Oh… — Rick Riordan
I have a flamthrower. (Zarek) You have a what? (Astrid) It pays to be prepared. (Zarek) Well. Those are nice for toasting marshmallows, but they’ll… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected… — David Rockefeller
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat. — Laura Lippman
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit,… — Terry Pratchett
He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a… — Diana Gabaldon
To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to… — Bell Hooks
[Kenny] leaned back against the counter and studied the other man. “So Dex, how’s come you’re still alive to tell the tale?” Dexter wiped up… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who… — Adolf Hitler
Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden… — Susan Wittig Albert
One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. — Nelson Mandela
Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared… — Alicia Keys
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you… — Ai Yazawa
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
We have to be prepared for change. — Paulo Coelho
There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will… — George Eliot
And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It… — Gary D. Schmidt
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully… — Katie MacAlister

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