Quotes About Preparedness

Holding one of those things in your hands, cleaning the barrel and shoving the rounds into clips, really brings you face-to-face with what a desperate, last-ditch measure they really are. I mean, if it gets to the point where we are shooting at people and vice versa, then we have completely screwed up. So in the end, they only strengthened my interest in making sure we could do without them.

He keeps an axe in his attic." "Everyone does

I created opportunities, in case we might need them.

Discoveries can come in many different ways, and the most important thing is to be ready for them.

The time was 7:40 A.M. I reached for the phone. "Do you have your axe?" came the voice on the other end. It was Mad Dog. "Yes." "Is your axe sharp?" "No, but I can sharpen it while you're driving here." "How about your knife?" "Got it." "Everything needs to be nice and sharp.

I'm always ready for anything, but prepared for nothing.

Better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

If she'd been one of the crew on the Titanic, she'd have made everyone sign for the life jackets.

The Russian commander whose ship was torpedoed by SMS Emden off Penang on October 28, 1914, was certainly unprepared for the new age of global conflict. Only twelve rounds of ammunition were ready on deck; but there were sixty Chinese prostitutes below.

Before all else, be armed.

not restricting themselves to dealing with present threats but using every means at their disposal to foresee and forestall future problems as well. Seen in advance, trouble is easily dealt with; wait until it's on top of you and your reaction will come too late, the malaise is already irreversible.

Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

I'm more than ready if the national team coach needs me.

She took a slow look around her at Stefano's siblings. All of them stood as still as statues. Beautiful, gorgeous specimens of human beings, tough and dangerous, waiting for her signal, completely prepared to protect her at any cost.

Earth was totally unprepared for an enemy made of meat.

I'll be fine. The ready kit you packed covered everything, I think. In fact, I may not even need the fire extinguisher.

I believe . . . that if our country ever comes into trial again, young men will spring up equal to the occasion, and if one fails, there will be another to take his place.

He always delivered these tirades extemporaneously and had never yet been known to read a prepared speech. The

On the floor by each child's desk was the obligatory gas mask. Children now carried them everywhere.

guns, gas masks, arrows, ammunition. We're ready.

For a generally peaceable person, Miss Faber does like to go about well armed in the world. As

How come, Georgie, that you go armed to a civilian horse show?" "I believe in being prepared," he told her. "I always carry a pistol, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly had issues. Just looking at him made her wish she had a paintball gun, but hell, you couldn't pack for every eventuality.