Quotes About Preparedness

Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything.

Use crayons as emergency survival candles

There will Always be Something Mysterious in our Life, so be Ready for It

I saw your shower curtain hit the back lawn. You'll need to replace that." "I have a spare," I said. "Why on earth would you have a spare shower curtain?" he asked. "In case I need to haul off a body," I said.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

A warrior who doesn't hope for battle has no hope during battle.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil" (emphasis added).

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength

there was no foreign war, because this prince was always ready for war.

Anxiety asks for more information so it can be prepared for the coming apocalypse. It also asks for more information so it can manage the world apart from God.

Weapons readiness?" "Nominal," Dalal

When the next pandemic comes, as it surely will someday, perhaps we will be ready to meet it. If we are not, the outcome will be very, very, very dreadful.

The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.

Back from 2001 to 2003, I wrote multiple editorials for The Washington Post about biological warfare and pandemic preparedness - issues that were at the top of everyone's agenda in the wake of 9/11 and the brief anthrax scare. At the time, some very big investments were made into precisely those issues, especially into scientific research.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

I want to show on the training pitch that I am ready whenever the manager needs me.

I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner.

Climate change is absolutely real and if you don't believe that you ought to believe every four-star general in our military is planning for it.

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.

I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.