Get Ready For War Quotes

#1. Tris: Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war ... and took your makeup bag with you?
Christina: Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.

Veronica Roth

#2. One is always ready for war." Uthil gently twisted the pommel of his sword so the naked blade flashed in the gloom. "Or never.

Joe Abercrombie

#3. ...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs - a touch of romance.

Bruce Bairnsfather

#4. Are we entirely ready, sir?" said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means "We are not entirely ready, sir."
"We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus, 'let us take history by the scrotum.' Of course, he was not a very honourable fighter.

Terry Pratchett

#5. If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed as its foundations, let it say so openly, both to the people of Bosnia and to the people of the world. Let it proclaim a new code of behavior in which force will be the first and the last argument.

Alija Izetbegovic

#6. The message is for everybody who wears the uniform: get ready. The United States will do what it takes to win this war ... And this is an administration that is going to dedicate ourselves to winning that war.

George W. Bush

#7. We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#8. I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Adolf Hitler

#9. You could kind of say that I was ready for war. If our marriage was over, then so be it.

Nika Michelle

#10. We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

Will Rogers

#11. If you must go to a negative place of power, go to them in a very conservative way. You must go to them when your power is up. It is like going to war. You have got to be ready if you are going to survive.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Issue a call to the young generation to get ready for the holy war and to prepare for that in Afghanistan because jihad in this time of crisis for Muslims is an obligation of all Muslims.

Osama Bin Laden

#13. Green called Curtis his son. And he was ready to go to war for him, like any good father would.

A.E. Via

#14. The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead -and may well mount a fifth column.

Andrew Sullivan

#15. It's always fallen to women to forge the peace between all these hot-blooded men, always ready to go to war at the slightest provocation....Why do men behave the way they do, warring?"
"What do you think?" he asked.
"Maybe because they've got no sense of grief?

Nuruddin Farah

#16. This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.

Kevin Garnett

#17. We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.

Aaron B. Powell