Quotes About Preparedness

Her friend Alex would have had a gun in her purse. Elaina would disable the guy with a few martial arts moves. But Mia didn't own a gun—much less carry one—and she couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag.

Strange," Phoebe said, looking at the lifeboats that hung just off the deck. "There are only sixteen boats. That's not nearly enough for everyone.

Such accidents have to happen. But they don't have to happen to you and me.

Only 10 to 20 percent of untrained people can stay calm and think in the midst of a survival emergency.

You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.

For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach.

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

Alert today, alive tomorrow.

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

Don't be afraid of falling out of the plane, you are dressed for the occasion.

It never occurred to her that if the drainpipes of a house are clogged, the rain may collect in pools on the roof; and she suspected no danger until suddenly she discovered a crack in the wall.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when we have a Plan B.

The little red eyes glared at Prew challenging, almost hoping for some disagreement that would force Old Ike to prove his loyalty to Holmes, Wilson, the Company, and the cause, which might be Better Soldiering; Peacetime Preparedness; or the Perpetuation of An Aristocracy. Nobody could have named the Cause, but then its name was unimportant, as long as the Cause itself remained to levy loyalty.

Better paranoid then sorry.

learn to think smart, stay one step ahead of the game instead of having the game bite us in the ass." Or

Excerpt from Alert copyright © James Patterson, 2015

Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

We have to be ready to confront the risks that the terrorists and others present to our city and those risks are unique in any nation's capital.

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

If you want to have the clarity and steadiness to deal with that '3:00 A.M. phone call,' you should better have made sure that you're not running on empty when that phone rings.

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

Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.