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What if things happened to you - special, magic things - because you'd been preparing for them? — Jennifer McMahon

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring. — Winston Churchill

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection — Raoul Vaneigem

My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary. — John Edward

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing. — Sydney J. Harris

As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war. — Hillary Clinton

If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! — Charles Lamb

In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless. - Dwight D. Eisenhower — Neil Shubin

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives. — Ellen Ochoa

Life is a journey. Our whole life we are preparing for the journey, but never take the road. — Debasish Mridha

I'd assumed Jack's death was the worst that I could endure. Matthew might have been preparing me for both of their murders. Dear — Kresley Cole

The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice. — Bill Walsh

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring. — Rumi

You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances. — McKayla Maroney

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged. — Morgan Spurlock

O meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived. — Peter S. Beagle

We are evidently preparing," he said, "to fight World War Three in the midst of an enormous Spanish omelet. — Kurt Vonnegut

This trip was not about running for president. This trip was preparing to BE president. — Rick Perlstein

Expecting problems and constantly preparing for them, not only creates anxiety, but a legacy of disappointment. — Charles F. Glassman

There's a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin that I always loved: "By failing to prepare, you're preparing to fail". — Argena Olivis

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. — Sidney Lumet

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy. — Oli Thompson

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him — Beth Moore

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. — Cy Twombly

Never spend so much time preparing to live, that you forget to actually live. — Ann Depres

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving. — Jean Shepherd

Be patient and believe in your future. God is already there and is preparing a way. — Shannon L. Alder

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing. — Junot Diaz

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over. — John Lone

At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family. — Jean Reno

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. — Freeman Dyson

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. — Jessica Hagedorn

That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one. — Max Brooks

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. — Charles Kuralt

I wanted to start living, not endlessly preparing. — Gurbaksh Chahal

Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether. — Al Madrigal

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories. — Leslie Bradshaw

Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can. — Epictetus

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. — Maya Angelou

Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola ... — Mark Pryor

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy — Ralph Ellison

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them. — Amanda Beard

apparently preparing to put an end to their — Phyllis A. Humphrey

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict. — Frank B. Kellogg

Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready. — Ben Carson

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. — Jay Samit

When you stop planning and preparing ... you stop winning. — Zig Ziglar

God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me. — Johnny Hunt

the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster — Stephen King

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game. — David Bronstein

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF. — Paul Cellucci

He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him. — Rick Moody

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong. — Catherine Deneuve

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing. — John C. Maxwell

All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war. — George Carlin

Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has. — Joel C. Rosenberg

He felt like his body had a will of its own. Always looking. Preparing for the only fight that would satisfy him. — Veronica Rossi

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel. — Lawrence Sanders

I feel like every present moment is the moment I was waiting and preparing for my whole life. — Debasish Mridha

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. — Washington Irving

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness - preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage. — Billy Graham

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go. — John Cameron Mitchell

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. — Louis Pasteur

I'd been preparing myself to apologize. Forgive and forget, as Mom says. "Fuck you," I said. — Tara Kelly

Everything waited. The night was ending. The world was holding its breath, preparing to begin again. — Neil Gaiman

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. — Winston Churchill

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. — John Malkovich

When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots. — Kyrie Irving

If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present. — Leo Tolstoy

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it. — Robin McKinley

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever. — Albert Einstein

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part. — Emily Mortimer

I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. - OGDEN NASH — Daniel G. Amen

For the children of Israel, the essence of religion was experiencing God to the fullest during this lifetime, not merely preparing for the next. — Rachel Held Evans

We need to start preparing ourselves for the changes we are anticipating in our society — Sunday Adelaja

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. — Paul Cezanne

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. — Katherine Bernhardt

Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready. — Lorrie Moore

The day of the ball was spent preparing me much as one prepares a goose for Christmas, with the same ultimate effect. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. — Yasser Arafat

If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey. — Robert L. Wise

I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way. — Marcus Samuelsson

Over preparing for your competition is better than underpreparing. — Matshona Dhliwayo

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. — Dario Fo

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him. — Samuel Rutherford

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.' — Muhammad Ali

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. — Albert Einstein

Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows. — Louise Hay

Maybe I'm too late to be your first. But right now, I'm preparing myself to be your last. — Mr. Sid

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life. — Don Williams

If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing. — Donald Barnhouse

I know it sounds a little pessimistic, but it's true. You'll never be done preparing, and you'll never be ready. None of us will. — Creek Stewart