Quotes About Ready

#1. The world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

Marie Corelli

#2. My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!

Tuula Kallioniemi

#3. I seem to be ready for work, my materials are collected, yet the work doesn't get done! Nothing is done!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. I was ready to get the hell off the mountain, but somehow that offered no satisfaction. I had gotten in too deep. I would have been so easy if only I could have cried. But crying wasn't an option, because I felt that far ahead of me there was something really worth crying about.

Haruki Murakami

#5. There's a lunar eclipse late Friday." Alisha said. "I hope everybody has their emotional body armor ready. Things are about to get intense.

Lee Fishman

#6. When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

Joni Mitchell

#7. Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

Charles Simic

#8. He offers a subtle wag and paws at my leg. I reach down and pull him up to my lap and scratch his tummy. "How about you, buddy? You ready to get out of this dump?" Bernie Kosar thumps his tail against the bed.

Pittacus Lore

#9. Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

Iain Duncan Smith

#10. We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick.

Ayah Bdeir

#11. You aint ready for that.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.

John Ruskin

#13. The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

Ashly Lorenzana

#14. I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

Kylie Jenner

#15. I'm getting ready to change a lot of opinions about me.

Brandon Jacobs

#16. It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.

Andrew Mitchell

#17. Where your will is ready, your feet are light.

George Herbert

#18. When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

A.A. Milne

#19. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.

Ben Horowitz

#20. Out of all of the trillions of years of the Earth's history, you might be alive for one 70 or 80 year period. That ain't so long. You should be out ready to burn this motherfucker to the groun' while you can. But they somehow get you all scared and hung up on these stupid ideas.

L.T. Vargus

#21. But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#22. This time - you better be ready to fight for her. She doesn't deserve anything less.

Jay McLean

#23. Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

Colm Toibin

#24. He merely sought a framework, like a coat hanger on which he could hang his life. At least then it might look like a life which was ready to be inhabited rather than a crumpled garment on the floor.

Danny Scheinmann

#25. I take pride in using fountain pens. They represent craftsmanship and a love of writing. Biros, on the other hand, represent the throwaway culture of modern society, which exists on microwave ready-meals and instant coffee.

Fennel Hudson

#26. What I would like to say to you in conclusion is this: romance is the dessert. If you are hungry, you need to be working on the main meal - yourself. That means learning how to fulfill yourself first, and once you have achieved that, then you will be ready for dessert!" - Raeleen

Belinda Jones

#27. The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#28. I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

Ray Bradbury

#29. She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities
this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny.

Laurie Colwin

#30. We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current.

Mao Zedong

#31. Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it

Mary Rowlandson

#32. The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we can answer 'yes' to the question. 'Is my self-worth as strong as my self-critic?' then we are ready to engage our creative expression.

Angeles Arrien

#33. A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

James Russell Lowell

#34. What worries me is that I am not sure any of the Republicans, or any Democrat, is ready to 'go to the mats.' And, ergo, I am concerned that our current leaders are simply incapable of creating a winning war strategy.

Rick Elkin

#35. I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

Bennett Miller

#36. When we are to attend upon God in solemn ordinances it concerns us to sanctify ourselves, and to get ready beforehand.

Matthew Henry

#37. The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Caleb Colton

#38. This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

George W. Bush

#39. The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

Anthony De Mello

#40. I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

Joseph J. Ellis

#41. I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.

Viktor E. Frankl

#42. One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Jacques Chirac

#43. People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

Lorii Myers

#44. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again.

Albert Camus

#45. When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

John Thune

#46. Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

Carine Roitfeld

#47. When Germany declared itself ready to discuss an armistice, Wilson refused to negotiate until the Kaiser abdicated.

Henry Kissinger

#48. Their pursuers suddenly stopped their efforts, grew quiet. "They gave up!" Mark said, embarrassed at the kidlike excitement in his voice. "Which means they're up to something," Alec replied. "We need to get inside this beast and get her ready to fly. And get that landing pad open.

James Dashner

#49. I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

Asafa Powell

#50. The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

B.C. Forbes

#51. All I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready.

Jojo Moyes

#52. I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

Steven Soderbergh

#53. Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.

Nikki Grimes

#54. I think people find each other when they're ready for them. When they need each other the most. And it's in that time of need that the strongest relationships are formed.

Kim Holden

#55. I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.

Sean Price

#56. Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#57. The pleasant thing about fighting with the Spaniards, Mr Ellis,' said Jack, smiling at his great round eyes and solemn face, 'is not that they are shy, for they are not, but that they are never, never ready.

Patrick O'Brian

#58. Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.

William Golding

#59. Motors that are vulnerable to shorting out because of snow ingestion should have snow filters installed over air intakes, and spare motors should be ready to replace any failed motors.

Robert James Thomson

#60. The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.

William Stringfellow

#61. You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

John Hickenlooper

#62. No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.

Napoleon Hill

#63. Paul crouched at the ready and, as he had been trained to do after first blood, called out: Do you yield?

Frank Herbert

#64. Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security. Of course, if we plant seeds of backbiting, questioning, and doubt, we reap a great harvest of insecurity.

Lysa TerKeurst

#65. The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

Howard Storm

#66. You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.

Charles Dickens

#67. She knew it was going to happen, was ready for it, but when he pulled her to his lips, nothing could have prepared her for the heavy rush of desire that slammed through her.

Kiersten Fay

#68. What's ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn't they?

Danielle Steel

#69. The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

Jessica Alba

#70. For guys, I don't think you're ever ready ... I don't think you wake up and go, 'You know, today's the day I'm going to get married. By God, I'm ready. My house is in order, and it is time.'

Rob Lowe

#71. When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can't just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you're ready for it.

Colleen Hoover

#72. I used to watch my Cuban mother getting ready singing 'Dos Gardenias,' so to me fashion has always been fun.

Maria Canals Barrera

#73. A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#74. The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.

Sonya Renee Taylor

#75. You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#76. Severus," said Dumbledore, turning to Snape, "you know what I must ask you to do. If you are ready . . . if you are prepared . . ." "I am," said Snape.

J.K. Rowling

#77. Layla, darling, I shall be ready whenever you decide to retire to the country and commence on a life of unending debauchery.

Eloisa James

#78. In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

Soren Kierkegaard

#79. The Friendship is a suicide, the question is "Are you ready to suicide?".

Deyth Banger

#80. I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Freddy Adu

#81. Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement

Drake

#82. My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

David Duchovny

#83. 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 and then you have peace of mind.

Diego Maradona

#84. I remember when people used to think I was smart.
I remember when people used to think my brain was useful.
Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.

Sherman Alexie

#85. Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt ... people.

Martin Luther

#86. The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

Travis Bradberry

#87. You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.

Philip Rivers

#88. It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

Marya Mannes

#89. There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe.

Iyanla Vanzant

#90. Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

Jennifer Carpenter

#91. Here's a little secret that's going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person.

Mandy Hale

#92. Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Alan J. Pakula

#93. SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her! CAPTAIN KIRK: Thank you, Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally. - STAR TREK

Timothy Ferriss

#94. ready for the next shift. Colleen was coming out of the kitchen and saw her as she walked towards the bar.

Ashley Merrick

#95. You like it dirty; I do too. Be filthy; beg me for it. Be a complete cock whore."
"You like being forced to just lay there and wait for me. I like it too. You look so good all open and ready for my cock. Just being still and obedient like a good little cock whore.

Kele Moon

#96. To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.

Rajneesh

#97. Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open.

Megan Abbott

#98. We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

Linda M. Godwin

#99. I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I'd had enough of trying to ignore them.

R. J. Anderson

#100. The Murder is always ready.

Matthew B. Wolcott