Top 100 Quotes About Not Ready
#1. Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.
Ike Skelton
#2. I'm not ready for you to go." His voice was thick and smoky.
Denise Hunter
#3. I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.
Mike Birbiglia
#4. At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.
But she already knew the answer to that.
Nobody was ever ready.
L.J.Smith
#5. Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#6. 'I'm sorry,' guys are always telling women, 'but I'm just not ready to make a commitment.' Guys are in a permanent state of nonreadiness. If guys were turkey breasts, you could put them in a 350-degree oven on July Fourth, and they still wouldn't be done in time for Thanksgiving.
Dave Barry
#7. If the listener is not ready for the truth, it will fall upon deaf ears.
J.R. Rain
#8. I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
May Sarton
#9. Temptation is a slower process and you'll feel it more in the morning just after waking and in the evening, when you are at loose ends, tired, and yet not ready to fall asleep.
Louise Erdrich
#10. In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.
Denise Levertov
#11. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it.
John McCain
#12. Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. "Not today.
Melina Marchetta
#13. I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.
Avril Lavigne
#14. If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
#15. Then do it. Do this thing with me. For real." For keeps. That wish he kept tight inside his chest, not ready to trust it with breath yet.
Annabeth Albert
#16. If you've never given a speech before, do you want your first speech to be in front of ten thousand people or ten people? You don't want everyone to watch you starting your business. It makes no sense to tell everyone to look at you if you're not ready to be looked at yet.
Jason Fried
#17. I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.
Suzy Bogguss
#19. I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things.
Robert Urich
#20. You meet a lot of people twice in life, Danny. Once when you're not ready, and then again when you are.
Steve Burrows
#21. Yes, I've heard you each and every time you've asked. But, I'm not ready to have that conversation and I have bigger stuff going on right now than having a bonding session with you over things we shouldn't be talking about in public anyway.
Stormy Smith
#22. Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.
Muriel Lester
#23. You can't keep her.
I know that. But I'm not ready to give her up just yet.
Simone Elkeles
#24. Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
Timothy Leary
#25. We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
Roger McGough
#26. In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?"
"Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.
Walter Scott
#27. We are ready to think of humans as MACHINES but we are not ready to think of humans as ANIMALS.
Kirtida Gautam
#28. I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.
Nigella Lawson
#29. If we're not ready for leadership or don't want to be the leader, then we need to focus on our followership skills that relate to a bad leader or select another leader that we think would do a better job than we would.
Kurt Madden
#30. If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.
Steve Maraboli
#31. I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
A.W. Tozer
#32. I believe that inspiration will always try its best to work with you - but if you are not ready or available, it may indeed choose to leave you and to search for a different human collaborator.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. If you're not far enough along to be able to decide, you're not ready.
Auliq Ice
#34. A man who is not ready to risk is not worthy of getting promotion
Sunday Adelaja
#35. If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.
James F. Amos
#36. So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less?
Daria Snadowsky
#37. There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.
Sloane Crosley
#38. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.
Barack Obama
#39. Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']
Richard Walter
#41. Nick!' I flinch. 'What?' Jo widens her eyes at Mom. 'Forget it, Jo,' Mom says. 'He's not ready.'
'Yes, I am,' I tell her. 'I know I don't have a dad. Kenny DiPoto doesn't have a dad either because his dad got knifed in jail.'
'Geezus,' Jo breathes. 'What kind of neighbourhood is this?
Julie Anne Peters
#42. Until human being is not ready to receive knowledge, until then it is impossible for God to give knowledge to human being.
Avinash Rai
#43. States and Provinces and curricula around the world track students by age. This practice is so common that we do not think of it as tracking. With few exceptions, a six year old must go into first grade even if that six year old is not ready or was ready for the grade one year earlier.
Zalman Usiskin
#44. If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.
Julia Child
#45. To be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.
Betty Rollin
#46. You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
Peter Lynch
#47. President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner
#48. Wait! I'm not ready.
Tough shit, Monroe. You had a year to get ready.
Can we talk about this?
I'm done talking. It's time to fuck.
B.B. Reid
#49. I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you're not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.
Wendy Raquel Robinson
#50. If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.
Barry Lyga
#51. Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
Margaret Atwood
#52. If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.
Kevin Hart
#53. Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You're not ready for it, but if you're lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you'd planned.
Nora Roberts
#54. Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.
Maria V. Snyder
#55. If you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
Charles Bukowski
#56. The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.
Hollis Stacy
#57. Sheryl Sandberg writes in her book Lean In that women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that and I'll learn by doing it."17
Wendy Sachs
#58. I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.
Terri Clark
#59. Whenever I'm with Bodee, it feels as if I'm made of glass. Mascara, blush, and fake smiles never fool him. Maybe it comes from years seeing his mother hide her fears from the world. But I'm not ready to share.
Courtney C. Stevens
#60. But the surest way to slow your own progress is to rush yourself into situation you're not ready for.
Marie Lu
#61. Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if you're not ready for judgment.
Bob Marley
#63. I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.
Jennifer Lawrence
#64. If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
Karl Lagerfeld
#65. I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.
Lady Gaga
#66. A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.
Gina B. Nahai
#67. Honestly, in the beginning, it was really tough. Coming from Cincinnati, Ohio, I was just a girl who had a dream, which was to go to Los Angeles, have a career and to be able to support my family. To have a dream like that and, you know, you're not ready.
Carmen Electra
#68. I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
Jonathan Coe
#69. The first time I had sex, I was scared I got the girl pregnant. And that was despite the fact we were safe. Luckily, we were fine. I would never risk not wearing a condom, it's too much of a risk. If you're not ready for a child, then don't risk it.
Harry Styles
#70. Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.
Idries Shah
#71. I've seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they're not ready for you, some people don't like that.
Paul Dano
#72. Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
Brad Bird
#73. He makes me feel like the sun, the world revolving around me, and I'm not ready to invite any others into our universe.
J.M. Darhower
#74. I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.
William Shatner
#75. I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
Marissa Mayer
#76. Please don't make me let go yet, Romeo. I'm not ready.
Kele Moon
#77. People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
Keri Russell
#78. If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. It were better for thee to watch against sin, than to fly from death. If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow? To-morrow is an uncertain day; and how knowest thou that thou shalt have a to-morrow?
Thomas A Kempis
#79. Learning to have patience and not forcing the relationship is part of the twin soul process. If you are trying to force your will onto the other person, chances are you're not ready to really connect yourself. There should be no blame here - only deep and unconditional love.
Chimnese Davids
#80. A dog, for me, it's not just getting a dog. I couldn't leave him at home. I'm looking for a life partner and I'm not ready. I'm not emotionally mature enough.
Zac Efron
#81. I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
Irrfan Khan
#82. If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed as its foundations, let it say so openly, both to the people of Bosnia and to the people of the world. Let it proclaim a new code of behavior in which force will be the first and the last argument.
Alija Izetbegovic
#83. Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as "doing someone a favor" are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.
William R. Cutrer
#84. I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.
Priyanka Chopra
#85. I know that love can be destructive. I know it can hurt , and God knows I've been a victim, I grew up a victim of what love can cause when it's wrong, but I'm not ready to never be in love again, to never be loved again. Because without love, life doesn't mean as much as it should.
Serena Grey
#86. I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
Tom Hayden
#87. They were lovers, except without the love. It was about sex. Amazing, fantastic, not-ready-to-walk-away-from-it-yet sex.
Kitty French
#88. There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.
Aprille Legacy
#89. The problem with most of us, we waste time in seeking answers from others, of those questions we already have the solutions but not ready to do.
In fact, we wait if somebody else does it for us or come up with shortcuts.
Himmilicious
#90. Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.
Charles Bukowski
#91. Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
Marian Wright Edelman
#92. I would tell you that she is global warming.
She's the one that completely altered the
climate of my life and like the people
on this planet, I'm not ready for her.
Anthony Otero
#93. People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
Imran Khan
#94. No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt
#95. Love isn't like a roast turkey that is or is not ready. It simply IS, and you must let it guide you.
Judith Michael
#96. Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#97. You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!
Gilan and Halt.
The Ruins of Gorlan.
John Flanagan
#98. Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.
Trish Doller
#99. Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.
Sadhguru
#100. Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
Nhat Hanh
