Quotes About Preparedness

My travels in New Jersey having made me proof against surprise

Logen pulled the knife out of his boot and rammed the blade into the side of the giant's neck. He looked surprised, for just a moment, then blood dribbled from his mouth and down his chin. He let go of Logen's shirt, stumbled back, spun slowly round, bounced off one of the stones and crashed on his face. Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.

Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.

Armor... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

You can never have too many knives." "No? What if you fall in a river and can't swim for all that iron?

Es mejor estar física y mentalmente dispuesto pero no del todo entrenado que lo contrario.

Gilbert, as a rule, used money the way women use pepper spray; he liked having some handy but only produced it when physically threatened.

I'm always ready," Leonard said. "They pulled me out of my mama, I was ready for lunch and a fistfight.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead to nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have moved mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of a man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

A smidgen of prevention can prevent some real headaches!

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

Precaution is better than cure.

Precaution is better than a cure.

Don't leave home without it.

Alert today, alive tomorrow.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.

I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.