Under Preparedness Kit Quotes & Sayings

Everything begins with a thought, and thoughts are turned into plans, and plans into reality. — Marshall Sylver

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different. — Jessica Simpson

All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm not alone in misery of soul. — Dante Alighieri

My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every corner - financial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes, airbags failing to deploy - so he tends to use fear as a parenting tool to try to goad his daughters into being more prepared.When he retired, he reached new levels of preparedness, so his car contained bottled water, hand wipes, a roadside emergency kit with flares, books on tape, a coin dispenser, and two hand towels to use as makeshift bibs so he and my mother could drive and eat without making a mess. — Jancee Dunn

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. — Richard Linklater

Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood. — Joan Baez

I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment. — Margaret Thatcher

I cut a loaf of bread, and there wasn't any bread, Is this an omen? — Miguel

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet. — Ellen Barkin

The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. — George Bernard Shaw

Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours. — Ban Ki-moon

There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should be reserved as an expression for people who grew up with it. — Bruce Molsky

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth. — Daniel Prokop

I took the swab using the collection kit that I'd borrowed from Dominic who, I realized, had left the Boy Scout scale behind and was now verging on Batman levels of crazy preparedness. — Ben Aaronovitch