#prepared

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#assure #background #be prepared #best #both

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#be prepared #catch #distinction #elements #give

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#challenges #daunting #day #elect #face

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#ask #came #funny #gymnast #happened

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#autonomy #possibility #prepared #risk #starving

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me. ↗

— Emily Rossum

#fierce #i #me #met #prepared

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#agree #alternative #among #criticize #else

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#anyone #art #artist #bad #consciousness

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. ↗

— Stan Sakai

#be prepared #death #else #his #own

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#british #british people #call #contrast #democrats