Preparing Quotes

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

Fail, Failing, Prepare

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Wife, Humility

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill

Impromptu, Remarks

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Fact

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

Death, Philosophy, Themselves

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
Charles Stanley

Time, Money, Women

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

Battle, Found, Useless

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Fran Lebowitz

Future, Him, Serious

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams

Time, While, Hospital

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash

Sex, Woman, Idea

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

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

Peace, War, Last

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
Eden Phillpotts

God, Future, Hurt

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.
Liam Neeson

Work, Talk, Film

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Alfred Adler

War, Future, Enemy

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.
Louis C. K.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.
Miley Cyrus

Work, Great, Strong

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner

Him, Keep, Devil

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

Time, Character, Mean

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Mike Murdock

Failure, Fail, Prepare

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.
Rashida Jones

Character, Focus, Down

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens

Spring, Poor, Her

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
Adam Sandler

Future, Mirror, Studying

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'
Eliot Spitzer

Country, Again, Easy

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
Paula Deen

Good, Morning, Give

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
Carlos Ghosn

Best, Doubt, Tough

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.
Rachel McAdams

Great, Friend, Living

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
Jeffrey Kluger

Food, Amazing, Kids

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
Dick Cheney

Someone, Reason, Against

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.
Alan Dershowitz

Important, Young, Difficult

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