"Be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you."

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Ben Brantley

#Be Prepared Quotes #Prepared Quotes

“The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.”
“To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.”

Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.59, Oneworld Publications
“After you are diagnosed with a condition that is reasonably likely to lead to intolerable suffering and eventually cause loss of competence. An individual in this situation is going to be followed closely, and if they've made this advance request, and had it approved, then obviously it's up to the medical team advising them to follow the legislation.”

Source : "Grappling with the hardest questions on assisted dying". Interview with John Geddes, www.macleans.ca. January 25, 2016.
“As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.”
“You can't win together if you don't work together.”
“To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.”
“I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life”
“Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.”

Source : Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

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