Quotes About Preparedness

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough—more than enough—of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

Love when you're ready, not when you're lonely.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm.

Even the rats carry bike chains as essential defence accessories.

Awareness is the key to self-defense.

I should recommend...keeping...a small memorandum-book in the breast-pocket, with its well-cut sheathed pencil, ready for notes on passing opportunities, but never being without this.

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.

To the clothing, he added a pump shotgun and a box of shells. A Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistol went in his Tahoe's gun safe with two extra magazines. If he needed more than fifty-one shots at somebody, he deserved to die.

Don't bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight

There is a certain type of person who feels like they must be armed at every moment of the day or else the world will come for them in some way. Back home, this is very much not a good way to live.

There is a certain type of person who feels like they must be armed at every moment of the day or else the world will come for them in some way.

If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.

If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers, but it comes when you are ready to face all the questions

A teenager is someone who is well prepared for a zombie attack but not ready for tomorrows math test.

Expect the unexpected because nothing in life is expected.

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

Always be ready for everything in life, Because life is too short and we don't have time to practice for everything before it happens.

A little." She set it on the counter. "But it's probably not a terrible idea. Just in case.

But they are not risks of our own making, and we cannot make the danger vanish by pretending that it does not exist. We must be prepared to meet that danger with sober self-restraint and calm and judicious action if we are to be successful in our leadership for peace.