Readily Quotes
329 quotes by 280 authors
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[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the…
— Ernest Rutherford
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A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn’t deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn’t desire in all.
— Unknown Author
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The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people,…
— Nelson A. Miles
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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
— Horace
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Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is…
— Thomas Merton
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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking…
— Preity Zinta
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Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
— Seneca the Younger
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
— Seneca the Younger
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I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice…
— Geraldine Ferraro
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It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object…
— Matthew Simpson
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
— Margaret Fuller
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
— Thucydides
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Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available…
— Michael McCaul
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As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all…
— Jerry Saltz
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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier…
— Abraham Kuyper
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