Ready Quotes

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The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well… — Kurt Vonnegut
It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work. — Andy Rooney
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use… — Andy Rooney
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to… — Andre Gide
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And… — George Orwell
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson
Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another. — Richard Le Gallienne
Where your will is ready, your feet are light. — George Herbert
How ready is heaven to those that pray! — Ben Jonson
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. — Henri Frederic Amiel
People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready… — Nomar Garciaparra
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to… — Karl Kraus
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others. — Francois Mauriac
Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched. — Giacomo Leopardi
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social… — Anna Garlin Spencer
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think. — Jane Rule
Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send. — Matthew Henry
What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least… — Henry Mintzberg
I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy… — Diego Maradona
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to… — John Clare
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. — Brian Eno
Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks… — Shirley Temple
I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to… — John C. Calhoun
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We… — Jonathan Raban

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