Quotes About Preparation

The floods, the fires, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, the droughts, the water shortages, the earthquakes. [...] Why did I think it would nonetheless be business as usual? Because we'd been hearing these things for so long, I suppose. You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you

One must always keeps both sides in one's head; it's the only way to anticipate the moves of one's opponent

Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. …

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

Context is all; or is it ripeness? One or the other.

L'essere sana di mente è un patrimonio che accumulo come un tempo la gente accumulava il denaro. Lo tengo da parte, per quando sarà il momento.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving.

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.