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)

    “If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
    —Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)

    “To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.”
    —José Bergamín (1895–1983)