Readier Quotes

#1. With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Others stumbled upon the stone by accident. They already had the gift, and their souls were readier for such things than the souls of others. But they don't count. They're quite rare.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.

E. M. Forster

#4. for your lords are readier to feed idle people than to take care of the sick; and often the heir is not able to keep together so great a family as his predecessor did.

Thomas More

#5. American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.

Elisabetta Canalis

#6. Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#7. The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

John Tillotson

#9. He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

Benjamin Whichcote

#10. Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#11. For we see Abraham the readier to acknowledge himself but dust and ashes the nearer he approaches to behold the glory of the Lord,

John Calvin

#12. One deep breath makes me ready for the next one and then the next one and with each deep breath I feel a little readier until I jump out of bed and pull up the shade

Robert M. Pirsig

#13. All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman's face, or worse
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil.

William Butler Yeats

#14. There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.

Thomas Hoby

#15. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Thucydides

#16. Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time.

Will Durant

#18. Cornelius Tacitus when he says, that men are readier to pay back injuries than benefits, since to requite a benefit is felt to be a burthen, to return an injury a gain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. Perhaps if you were to refrain from deploying the phrase 'ignorant
buffoon' with a liberality most writers reserve for 'it' and 'the,'
you would find a readier audience.

Vinnie Tesla

#20. It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

George Washington

#21. God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it's not necessary for them to be good, it's essential for them to appear good.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#22. I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game.

Harry Broadhurst

#23. It's illegal, you know," he murmurs. "Stealing."
I clear my throat. "Stealing?"
"My heart. I could have you arrested."
I snort. "For that tiny thing? I'd get a misdemeanor at most.

Eliza Crewe

#24. Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert, you think while you're talking. And it's impossible to listen to someone if you are thinking of the next thing you want to say.

Penelope Trunk

#25. We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

Vijay Mallya

#26. I do abs every day: regular, weighted crunches and sit-ups every other day, then my obliques and my sides on the alternating day. So I'm working my core every day.

Christopher Gorham

#27. I will make you mine Margaret. But you will want it. I am relentless. Know it.

Cate Toward

#28. His dark head bowed, became lost in its own shadow.

Marie Rutkoski

#29. The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.

George O. Wood

#30. Got a hundred grand in my ash tray, spend a 100 k on a bad day.

Wiz Khalifa

#31. May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

Saint Ignatius

#32. That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#33. Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

Bill Vaughan

#34. You can be special without being extraordinary.

Nancy Werlin

#35. the present is all that you ever have in life, and that these moments of magic are too precious to be ignored because you're too busy thinking about the next thing.

Nick Alexander