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Quotes About Preparedness

Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.
~ John C. Maxwell
I am an optimist, but I am an optimist who carries a raincoat.
~ Harold Wilson
Fear is a good emotion to cultivate; it keeps you alert. Without it few survive.
~ Harry McCallion
lulled into a complacency born of proud discoveries and medical triumphs, unprepared for the coming plague.
~ Laurie Garrett
Do not fight what you can see in front of you only, assume there is a battle to fight every where you face, so when you see the battle you won't be suprise
~ Lawal Oluwaseun
Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good.
~ Lemmy Kilmister
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
~ Lemony Snicket
I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
~ Lena Headey
Yes, he thought, I am ready, I have always been ready, I am ready at least.
~ James Salter
Yes, he thought, I am ready, I have always been ready, I am ready at last.
~ James Salter
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
~ Jane Austen
Ranger clicked his penlight on. Hang onto me if you can't see. I curled my hand into the back of his cargo pants just above his gun belt. I'm good to go. He was still for a beat. You could have held on to my jacket, he said. Would you rather I do that? No. Not even a little.
~ Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum: Do you have your stun gun and pepper sray? Lula: Does a chicken have a pecker? I could invade Bulgaria with the shit i've got in my handbag.
~ Janet Evanovich
Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.
~ Janet Evanovich
We're not going to die. You're with me kiddo and it just happens I know a few survival skills. Oh yeah right. Like carrying your Visa Gold in case the restaurant doesn't accept American Express.
~ Janet Evanovich
She gestured to the bag. What have you got in there? Nothing much. Some golfballs, a handful of tees, a Glock, extra ammo, two hand grenades, a tear gas canister, a knife, Tums, clean socks, flares, and some Ensure chocolate shakes. You took all of that with you to play golf?
~ Janet Evanovich
Did you pack an extra gun?" "Of course," she said. "You can never have too many weapons." Jake smiled. "I raised you right.
~ Janet Evanovich
The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.
~ Charlie Sykes
I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.
~ Charlie Cox
Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.
~ John C. Reilly
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be with you at the crash, you've got to put them on the manifest.' And so I was always of the view to almost leave no stone unturned when you're up there briefing the Hill.
~ Michael Hayden
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
~ Margaret Chan
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
~ Charles Kingsley
I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.
~ Monica Keena