Preparing Combat Ready

Famous quotes containing the words preparing, combat and/or ready:

    “They are preparing to begin again:
    Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
    In a predicated romance.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The combat ended for want of combatants.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)