Be Prepared Quotes - Page 19

• I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Believe, Years

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• I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared to accept whatever the outcome of the intra-Syrian dialogue and the decision of the Syrian people is. But people are trying to decide and determine the outcome of the negotiation before even we agree to start the negotiations.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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• I think the only fear that I have in getting married is what if I'm not enough or what if I'm not prepared enough, because I'm the kind of person that likes to be prepared.

  Rebecca St. James

  Thinking, What If, Likes

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage.

  Rebecca St. James

  Different, Married, Heard

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

  Bob Dylan

  Prepared, Knows

  Song: Sugar Baby

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• I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Writing, Mean, Stories

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• If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the Legislature as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Class, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.265

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• You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Looks, Failing, Angle

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• We have to be prepared for change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Prepared

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.

  Che Ahn

  Want, Glory, Knowing God

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• We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Men, Creation Of Man

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.109

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• When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Borders, Territory

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a big budget, commercial Hollywood movie. I don't get into those [details]. I have to get into my character and I concentrate on that, on the story, on researching, and on certain training if I have to be prepared physically. I think that's the most important thing.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Character, Independent, Thinking

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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• Be patient. Always be kind. Stand in the middle of the river. Be prepared. It [success] will all come. Don't be in such a rush.

  Rockmond Dunbar

  Rivers, Be Kind, Patient

  Source: collider.com

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• Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

  Morris Gleitzman

  Waiting, Advice, Yards

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• But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Grateful, Boys, Dawn

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

  Sandra Brown

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Writing

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• The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

  Ike Skelton

  Army, Iran, Korea

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• When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Mean, Accepting

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• The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

  Joe Biden

  Moving, Average, Iraq

  "Biden officially running for president". www.nbcnews.com. January 31, 2007..

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• You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.

  Billie Jean King

  Running, Sacrifice, Goal

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• For interests that are vital to the U.S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U.S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary.

  Graham T. Allison

  Military, Survival, Essentials

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• I get no sense from his note at all,” said Will, bounding to his feet, “except that he can quote Tennyson’s lesser poetry. Sophie, how quickly can you have Tessa ready?” “Half an hour,” said Sophie, not looking up from the dress. “Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.

  Cassandra Clare

  Feet, Dresses, Sophie

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• If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realise that it's part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Exercise, Feel Good

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