#pare

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#prepare #vital #will #win

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. ↗

— George S. Patton

#how #in the past #others #past #prepare

She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi- much less try to develop a meaningful relationship- since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky. ↗

— Vivian Vande Velde

#funny #geek #girls #heir-apparent #dreams

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#apply #hope #new #now #our

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#always #best #done #elections #especially

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. ↗

— John Tillotson

#crafty #danger #dark #person #pretenses

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us. ↗

— Richard Perle

#european #european governments #governments #hesitated #more

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#lisp #nests #parentheses #pens #programmer

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#got #grandparents #had #i #i think

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome. ↗

— Anne Perry

#been #conventions #deal #excellent #extraordinarily