It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
David Gower

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.
Piper Perabo

It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off.
Fred Willard

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.
Sydney Schanberg

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Boris Pasternak

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
Nathaniel Smith

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
James Earl Jones

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
Jim Evans

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
Augustus Hare

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
Sally Ride

Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.
Sue Wicks

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
Jerry Moran

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Tecumseh

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
George S. Patton