Be Prepared Quotes - Page 14

• The universe is like a giant bank vault lock, where the tumblers are constantly moving and once in a while the tumblers line up and you have to listen for the click. So you must be prepared in that moment to step through the door.

  James Cameron

  Moving, Doors, Giants

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• As we prepare our homes to be places where the Spirit is welcome, we will be prepared to feel more 'at home' when we enter the House of the Lord.

  Linda K. Burton

  Home, House, Spirit

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• Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Enlightened, Amused, Provoked

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• The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.

  Hakim Bey

  Blessed, Fda, Law

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.21, Autonomedia

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• When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cities, Community, Soul

  "The Rock". Play by T. S. Eliot, 1934.

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• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving Up, Decision, Abuse

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• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, Voice, People

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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• Be prepared for luck.

  Robin Williams

  Luck, Prepared

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• If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

  Mick Jagger

  Night, People, Bottles

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• Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

  Richard Rohr

  Prayer, Heart, Grace And Mercy

  "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012.

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• For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

  Evan Davis

  People, Principles, Benefits

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• 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.

  Henry Kirke White

  Christian, May, Fortitude

  Henry Kirke White (1824). “The prose remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, containing his letters, essays, and some account of his life”, p.117

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• Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

  E. O. Wilson

  Frustration, Waste, Chaos

  "Letters to a Young Scientist". Book by E. O. Wilson, 2013.

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• The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  World, Vexation, Eternity

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1863). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.95

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• For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them and whether they're going to not just have the financial resources to be prepared for the challenge, but whether they're going to have the strength and the stamina to live healthier, longer lives so that they can see their kids and grandkids. That's the legacy I hope to see, and it can have nothing to do with me and I'd be perfectly happy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Challenges

  "Michelle Obama: Team Effort Needed to Halt Childhood Obesity". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 8, 2010.

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• There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Player, Analogies, Chess

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.838, Xist Publishing

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• I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Grief, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

  Brandon Routh

  Thinking, Different, Way

  "Brandon Routh for “Superman Returns”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• You play all your life and train all your life and then you are not playing. It's not easy to deal with. But you can't roll up in a ball and hope it goes away. You have to take it on the chin and train hard and be prepared to play. We all know the game changes in an instant and anything can happen so you have to keep the hope that comes your way.

  Shay Given

  Train Hard, Games, Play

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• You must be prepared and know the
  reason why you dance.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Reason Why, Knows, Reason

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.179, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

  Arthur Wallis

  Israel, Ahab, Pathways

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• Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.

  Richard Schmid

  Preparation, Battle, Gears

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• To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.

  Gary Player

  Determination, Adversity, Successful

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• The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

  Pythagoras

  Inspirational, Wise, Lying

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• I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.

  Loretta Young

  Believe, World, Separation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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