#prepares

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. ↗

— Andre Gide

#happiness #only #prepares #story #told

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#how #little #little time #live #matter

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#around #cause #change #ground #other

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#dissolution #every #hated #institution #most

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#complete #formation #ground #habit #indeed

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#enter #every #land #like #moses

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#book tour #catering #college #nobody #prepares

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#conservative #dentist #guy #i #like

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#coach #concentrated #entire #games #his