If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?
As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.
We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Are we prepared to leave our comfort zones to reach a better place?
Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.
You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.
This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.