Ripe Quotes

250 Ripe quotes by 220 unique authors

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. — Nelson Mandela
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is… — Jon Meacham
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes… — Henry Miller
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are… — Camille Paglia
I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A… — Shimon Peres
When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe… — Tom Robbins
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion. — Jane Smiley
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. — Torquato Tasso
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get… — Linus Torvalds
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird. — Olivia Wilde
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside… — Jeanette Winterson
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because… — Leo Tolstoy
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it… — Marcus Aurelius
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood… — T.E. Lawrence
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is… — Jack Gilbert
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning… — Evelyn Waugh
And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us.… — Ian Fleming
I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda… — Lisa Kleypas
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through… — Isabel Allende
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... — Evelyn Waugh
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come… — Wallace Stevens
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly… — Hermann Hesse

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