Quotes About Preparedness

Don't learn safety by accident.

You know you're a skydiver when you wear your rig on commercial passenger flights, just in case.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

Hannibal ad portas [Hannibal is at the gates]!

A vida toda você espera; agora, quando finalmente acontece, você está pronto?

Our defence forces and their morale symbolise the prowess of the India of the 21st century.

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

Public safety and emergency preparedness is essential.

You've got to go with the flow. Whatever happens, you've just got to be ready for it.

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

It's important that I'm always playing fresh and that I'm ready to go rather than just playing because I feel like I have to.

I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you? --The Rook, The Looking Glass Wars

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.

The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity," he said. "They say: 'Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

If you're mentally ready, you're willing to go the extra mile.

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all this time, and things don't happen.

The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

I don't want to be in a position that could make me vomit, like air travel. I've purloined airsick bags and stuffed them everywhere, just in case I ever feel the need to throw up. I haven't vomited since 1977, but I think about it all the time. I recognize that it's irrational, but I'd rather jump out of a window than vomit.