Quotes About Preparation

What the hell was he carrying this shit around for?" the second vamp demanded. "It's useful in making captures, subduing difficult prisoners." Pritkin shrugged. "Then . . . this is a weapon." "Yes." "But he was going on a date." Pritkin looked confused.

Panic leads to disaster – Reed Dalton

Soldier, you ready to head out?" "Yes, sir." "Flashlight? Pocket knife? Compass?" "Check." "Clean white shirt? Success loves preparation. You never know when a clean shirt will be needed.

You're] Too impatient to let anything brew to its full strength. What have I always told you? You have to raise a skeleton one bone at a time afore you can set it dancing,

If you can't fuck it, eat it or use it for a weapon--kill it.

Will an hour be enough?" An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. "I'll see what I can do," I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.

I'd also secreted a few crosses and bottles of holy water in various nooks. Barrons would laugh at me if he knew. You might wonder if I'm expecting an army from Hell. I am.

I'm used to feeling like I'm the only one sees the hard things coming, and I'm always angling to skew the odds in my favor. It's nice to know somebody else is preparing, too.

If you know what's coming and don't do anything to stop it, you got no right to act all surprised and pissy when the crap hits the fan. Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.

I envision the possible scenarios, starting with the worst first. I like to do it that way so I can end on the happy thought and aim for it.

Too much falsely inflates. Too little underprepares.

Nobody should be allowed to have a baby until they have first been required to train a chicken

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.

Things always change, Eva. You cannot control change. You can only be prepared for it.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be living in retirement.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

and began to go through the gear spread out

I don't want any help, she said. I want someone to think ahead the way I have to and to do it without me having to ask.

Dinner was a desultory mash of gray meat and root vegetables.

Smile at people, pop your head into your boss's office regularly and say hello, and come to your first meeting with something really smart to say.