The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.
Working with people is what I like to do. I don't feel intimidated. I always go in prepared. When you're not prepared, that's when you feel uncomfortable.
One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.
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.
Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
We're doing our homework to make sure we're prepared.
Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.
I am prepared to try anything once.
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.
You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.
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.
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job. . . And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.