Ready Made Quotes

78 Ready Made quotes by 68 unique authors

Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the real a method… — Henri Bergson
Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save… — Richard Whately
Where we go wrong is that we bring along some ready-made idea of God, wherever we may have learned it, and then try to make… — John Macquarrie
It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork… — H. L. Mencken
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. — Baltasar Gracian
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. — Marya Mannes
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in… — W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
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
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit. — Sandra Lee
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then… — Aristotle
I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts. — Bobby Fischer
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator… — Leonardo da Vinci
It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it! — Claude Monet
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume… — Leo Steinberg
My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have… — Ai Weiwei
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. — Vladimir Lenin
It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as… — Desmond Tutu
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to… — Carlos Fuentes
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. — Leslie Fiedler
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. — Dalai Lama

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