Be Prepared Quotes

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

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, and extremely loud, hysterics.

DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

National campaigns are tough. Yes, you have to be prepared to be attacked, and I have to tell you, if you get elected, you have to also be prepared.

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.

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

We have to work to make sure that our police are using the best training, the best techniques, that they're well prepared to use force only when necessary.

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

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.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference.

As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

Luck is created by the prepared.

The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

I'm prepared for 12 rounds. I'll be very happy with anything else, but I'm prepared for 12 or 15 rounds.

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head?

Whoever finds that they're not prepared to give their all should draw the inescapable conclusion from that and stop.

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'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.