Ready Made Quotes

78 quotes by 69 authors

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true… — Mikhail Bakunin
The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a… — Michele Flournoy
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. — Groucho Marx
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether… — Florence Ellinwood Allen
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived… — Joan Robinson
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world… — Marcel Duchamp
Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex… — Vannevar Bush
You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you. — Sylvia Plath
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep… — Walter Mosley
We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the… — Yehudi Menuhin
Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others,… — Abd-ru-shin
Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has… — Childe Hassam
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers… — Christian Wiman
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem… — William Kingdon Clifford
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a… — Martin Buber

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