Preparing Combat Ready

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

    “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
    —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)

    “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)

    “One can’t relive one’s life. Forgiveness is not what’s difficult; one’s always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that’s obvious.”
    —Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)