Quotes About Preparation

You ever think that life is something that happens and that you're not ever completely prepared for?

Delays breed dangers.

Pasteur, L. 1854. Chance favours only the prepared mind.

There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.

Being prepared isn't a matter of how much you practice. It's about knowing that even if you fail, you won't give up.

Live as though you'll die tomorrow, but farm as though you'll live forever.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

What I didn't realize was this: It's never possible to be prepared when the future takes over from the past.

Joe was making the mustard in a twelve-quart stockpot. Adrienne watched him for a minute, in awe of the sheer volume of ingredients: a pound of dry mustard, five cups of vinegar, eight cups of sugar, a whole pound of butter, and a dozen eggs. Joe added sixteen grinds of white pepper from a pepper mill that was longer than his arm.

While Mallory fixes the appetizers, Jake goes for a swim

Yet his mother always stocks the fridge like the offensive line of the Philadelphia Eagles are coming for dinner.

Who would think that a hurricane would be political?" she pointed out, speaking of Katrina, "until it was?" (Thompson 2012).

He grabs ropes, furs, blankets, a hatchet, and carrots. Carrots? Okay, so he likes vegetables.

Did I say I wasn't ready to think about true love? Maybe I'll take that back.

I was quite frightened about the effect of Wilson's leaving him. We managed to prepare him as well as we could, and when he found she was actually gone, the passion of grief I had feared was just escaped. He struggled with himself, the eyes full of tears, and the lips quivering, but there was not any screaming and crying such as made me cry last year on a like occasion. He had made up his mind.

I wished I could offer her tea. You don't think about it, but all those little fusses we make over company have their purposes. They give us something to do with our hands and our anxiousness until everybody settles in and starts having fun.

When the world is ending sometimes you have to save the party until there's time to bake.

Fighting the snare only deepens the wound. One must lie in wait, hoarding strength until the hunter returns.

The boy who was Strifbjorn is a whore. It's an irony the wolf should be prepared to savor, before he leaves the boy to his fate.

Thinking about the future was really doing a number on me.

As an old crew chief of mine used to point out, you might be dead long before the problem you didn't have the resources to fix right now became a critical need, so why waste more resources worrying about it?

Some things you want to make sure your teammates have access to if anything bad should happen to you.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.