Prepared Quotes
1875 Prepared quotes by 1443 unique authors
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Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be…
— Tom Robbins
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Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and…
— Constantine Peter Cavafy
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I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be.…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight…
— David Sedaris
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Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my…
— D. J. MacHale
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Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is…
— R C Sproul
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Be prepared,' that's my motto." He smiled smugly at me. "That, and 'Sleep whenever possible.' Oh, and 'If you don't notice it's gone, what's the…
— Kiersten White
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What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we…
— André Aciman
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The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.
— Rachel Vincent
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Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for…
— Helen Hollick
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...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.
— Christopher Golden
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People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous,…
— Gail Carriger
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I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My…
— Derek Landy
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You must be prepared to work always without applause.
— Ernest Hemingway
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It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...
— Robert Frost
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Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared…
— Cassandra Clare
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Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and…
— Maureen Johnson
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The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is…
— Haruki Murakami
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I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you…
— David Nicholls
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty,…
— George Orwell
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Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I…
— Sarah Dessen
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