Top 100 I Am Prepared To Quotes
#1. You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.
Dee Remy
#2. I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
John Steinbeck
#3. I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?
Ronald Reagan
#4. I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.
Josephine Hart
#5. There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion ...
Djemal Pasha
#6. Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the most aggressive of lawyers who can cross-examine me on my personal history.
Lee Kuan Yew
#8. Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.
Tana French
#9. "Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"
Charles Dickens
#10. I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#11. Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.
Carly Fiorina
#12. There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.
Rafael Benitez
#14. We've been to secretive, perhaps. For long periods in our shared history, that was a necessity born from conflict. But it is not, I am prepared to accept, a style of living compatible with the modern age. It is difficult to maintain trust that way. Even among friends.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#15. I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must stand up against this vile enemy and protect United States citizens both at home and abroad.
Bradley Byrne
#16. I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he's great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.
Gail Collins
#17. I guess I haven't mentioned it before but I was, I am and I think I might always remain in love with you," he said with such passion that I froze in surprise. He went on. "And just so you know, I am prepared to fight for you, regardless of whether or not you share my sentiments.
Farrah Naseem
#18. I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
Alec Waugh
#19. Do I believe in ghosts? ... I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.
M.R. James
#21. I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on.
Jools Holland
#22. In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama
#23. but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so.
Swami Vivekananda
#24. I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.
James P. Moran
#25. If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
Newt Gingrich
#26. I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
Gavin Bryars
#27. As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.
Moshe Sharett
#28. I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me
Ian Thorpe
#30. Some call me nature, others call me Mother Nature. ... How you choose to live each day, whether you regard me or disregard me, doesn't really matter to me. One way or other, your actions will determine your fate, not mine. I am nature. I will go on. I am prepared to evolve. Are you?
Conservation International
#31. My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.
Oscar Wilde
#32. My own view on religion is ... It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and ... to chronicle eclipses ... These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
Bertrand Russell
#35. My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
Elizabeth Bowen
#36. When I said yes,
it implies till death,
and forever thence.
When I said love,
it connotes trust,
allied in situations tough.
And today,
when I hold your hand,
I am prepared to stand,
any trouble,
any avalanche.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#37. When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
Taslima Nasrin
#38. The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.
Jim Al-Khalili
#39. I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#41. My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend, and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
Vivien Leigh
#42. I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
Inez Milholland
#43. There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.
Tehmina Durrani
#44. I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.
Daniel Ellsberg
#45. Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
Boris Yeltsin
#47. I am delighted to accept the chairmanship of Vote Leave, to help ensure that the organisation is fully prepared for the start of the referendum campaign.
Nigel Lawson
#48. I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#49. Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
#50. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis
Constance Savery
#51. If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And I am not prepared to admit such a thing.
Diana Gabaldon
#52. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing; I don't think I'm prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I'd like to give it 100%. I'm not in the frame of mind, and I'm too greedy an actor to do that.
Anupam Kher
#53. I am fully prepared to be commander in chief ... I don't need on-the-job training.
John McCain
#54. I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.
Richard Branson
#55. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston S. Churchill
#56. I am so scared of what will kill me in the end for I am not prepared, I hope i'll get the chance to be someone, to be human, look what we've done
Ellie Goulding
#57. I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.
Joe Biden
#58. There isn't a submission in the world that can force me to tap out. If you get me in a hold, you better be prepared to snap a bone or kill me because I will not surrender. Call me stubborn, I know I am. Call me competitive or spoiled, I'm those things too, but what I am not, is weak.
Skyla Madi
#59. I must ask myself, "Billy Graham, are you prepared to meet the Master at any moment?" Yes, I am - but not because I have preached or tried to help people, but solely because I am trusting Christ as my Lord and Savior. Stop right now and ask yourself that question.
Billy Graham
#60. Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.
Amber Tamblyn
#61. I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#62. To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the fact that death is coming nearer and nearer and you have to be prepared for it ...
Rajneesh
#63. If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.
Wladimir Klitschko
#64. When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.
Sachin Tendulkar
#65. I am well aware of my incompetence in predicting human reactions. But I would have been prepared to bet on the first word that Rosie would say when she received the information. I was correct by a factor of six. 'Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Graeme Simsion
#66. Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually
without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.
Lorraine Hansberry
#67. Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
Robert E. Howard
#68. I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.
Derek Landy
#69. I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.
Duke Of Wellington
#70. I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
Wilfrid Laurier
#71. I would rather be prepared for something which may never come up, than to have something come up for which I am NOT prepared.
Self
#72. Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with Sherman that a rebel has no rights, not even the right to live except by our permission.
Charles Fessenden Morse
#73. I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
J. Carter Brown
#74. I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals
mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.
Winston Churchill
#75. I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.
Wilhelm II
#76. Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
Tom Lehrer
#77. I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.
Paul Gauguin
#78. My motto is "Be Prepared." I am told this is also the motto of the Boy Scouts, but, if so, this only proves that they were acting according to my motto earlier than I.
David Mamet
#79. I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority ... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!
John Aspinall
#80. In the beginning before I allowed the darkness to completely consume me I thought of nothing but going home. The only issue with that is, I was not then nor am I now prepared to apologize for my beliefs.
Melyssa Winchester
#81. I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.
Jacques Chirac
#82. Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government what I think is a disastrous strategy which will impact on some of the most vulnerable and poorest people within our society.
Martin McGuinness
#83. I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.
Liane Moriarty
#84. I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.
Brendan Rodgers
#85. I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#86. The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.
Billy Graham
#87. I would not ask for things to be different, because it is not in my power to know if that would be better or worse than what I have today. I am not prepared to take that gamble.
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
#88. I am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed
Dan Quayle
#89. I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
Lena Headey
#90. I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.
Walter Munk
#91. I was taught never to make a threat unless you are prepared to carry it out, and I am not a fan of carrying anything. Even watching other people carrying things makes me uncomfortable. Mainly because of the possibility they may ask me to help.
David Thorne
#92. I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.
Joseph Brodsky
#93. I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.
James Joyce
#94. Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?
Tony Dungy
#95. I wasn't prepared to need you this much. I don't know who I am anymore if you aren't with me.
Kristen Callihan
#96. After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#97. I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.
Jerry Pournelle
#98. I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.
Daniel Inouye
#99. If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though I don't personally believe it is possible.
Alastair Reynolds
#100. I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
Aaron Rodgers
