Preparing Combat Ready

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

    “Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality—the principle of order versus the split atom.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)