Unpreparedness Quotes

“When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull”
― Jayden Hunter, Undressed To The Nines

“Pakistan, unlike India, would not start out with a functioning capital, central government or financial resources, which necessitated greater homework on the part of the Muslim League leaders. Unfortunately, they did little by way of preparation for running the country they had demanded. Many of Pakistan’s teething problems were the result of this ill-preparedness but Pakistani accounts of the country’s early days paint them as hardships inflicted on Muslim Pakistan by its non-Muslim enemies.”
― Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

“Later, I would come to think of those first days as a time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, the West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”
― Karen Thompson Walker

“Turns out
I'm still alive.
Not dead
Just suffering from severe shock.
And maybe
Which feels
LOVE.
just as terrifying and horrifying and exciting
as every worst-case scenario I ever studied.
Except this
I am totally, utterly unprepared for.
And maybe that’s what makes it so great.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin