Quotes About Preparedness

Remember in 'Goodfellas' when Joe Pesci stops by his mom's house to get a knife but within minutes is served a full-on red-sauce dinner despite his mom having been asleep when he arrived? That is the constant state of preparedness that only a freezer can get you.

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

Things happen so quickly. We don't have time for one person to tell everybody what to do. Everybody needs to know what to do in those situations.

If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.

Terrible things happen all of the time, and they can happen in a second. The best thing is to be prepared to react. If you try to control every little thing, you're going to end up miserable - and you're going to fail.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.

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They don't make coats for this kind of cold

Bütün teessürlerimiz, inkisarlar?m?z (dü? k?r?kl?klar?m?z), hiddetlerimiz, kar??m?za ç?kan hadiselerin anla??lmad?k, beklenmedik taraflar?nad?r. Her ?eye haz?r bulunan ve kimden ne gelebilece?ini bilen bir insan? sarsmak mümkün müdür?

To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

The business of life is more akin to wrestling than dancing, for it requires of us to stand ready and unshakable against every assault however unforeseen.

But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything?

But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.