This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. – Hannah Arendt
I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. – Horatio Alger
Now there are certain things you have to prepare – like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn’t need – for me, I don’t need to prepare that. – Idris Elba
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. – Joel Salatin
There’s nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you’re gonna eat it. – Jack Black
Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real. – Jamais Cascio
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point – to accelerate revolutionary development. – Johann Most
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. – Arne Duncan
Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country’s current or future energy needs. – Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much. – Billy Zane
I’d like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues – what to anticipate, what to expect, what they’ll need to do to prepare themselves. – Barry Bonds
It doesn’t matter if you’re winning or losing. You’ve got to be the same guy; you’ve got to prepare the same. – Carson Wentz
Preachers prepare with this fear: ‘Am I going to be able to fill the time?’ The audience never worries about that. – Andy Stanley
My upbringing has always been quite equal in terms of cultural influences. But it’s unlikely that anything could prepare you for a job that involves belting out Proclaimers songs on camera, in Edinburgh and in public. – Antonia Thomas
When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster. – Alain Ducasse
Let’s not spend resources that we don’t need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let’s not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony. – Buzz Aldrin
Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq – a war more than a year away. – Bob Graham
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we’re not doing it with our schools. – Al Franken
