Preparing Combat Ready

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

    “Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)

    “To be made to hold his tongue is the greatest insult you can offer him—though he might be ready with a poker to make you hold yours.”
    —Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865–1940)