Preparing Combat Ready

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

    “I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

    “It’s alive and waiting for you. Ready to kill you if you go too far. The sun will get you, or the cold at night. A thousand ways the desert can kill.”
    —Harry Essex (b. 1910)