#prepared

We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#be prepared #elsewhere #future #global #important

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#concerned #hard #me #mess #nuclear

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. ↗

— Stephen King

#funny #guess #houses #i #main

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#arnold #holding #i #i think #more

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. ↗

— Mark Twain

#preparedness #humor

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident. ↗

— Robert J. Ringer

#confident #feel #prepared #then #you

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

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream. ↗

— Linda Ronstadt

#be prepared #dream #other #people #prepared

You have to be prepared to take a spill. ↗

— Shaun White

#prepared #spill #take #you