Readying Quotes

#1. Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep, a smell so redolent with nostalgia a pleasant ache warmed her bones and she was nagged with the sense of a loss she could not remember.

Nevada Barr

#2. We were letting go of October, relinquishing color,
readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice,
the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.

Mark Perlberg

#3. Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dashed against the rocks without mercy.

V.S. Carnes

#4. Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

Frank Rich

#5. We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)

Max Hastings

#6. God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.

Paige Omartian

#7. Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

Eric Hoffer

#8. Jules and I smiled a lot. So much, that I found my cheeks actually hurt when I finally rested my head at the end of the day. I would rub the muscles in them, readying them for their inevitable workout the next day.

Fisher Amelie

#9. We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

Ronald Rolheiser

#10. I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.

Emma Cline

#11. Each wrong choice grows your character and strengthens your resilience, readying you for what comes next.

Jeff Goins

#12. I wasn't broken, just resting, readying myself for the next big thing.

David Sedaris

#13. Careful, wolf. We don't want the human to realize how much we can eat," she chuckled, talking to him with her mind.

A.O. Peart

#14. To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.

Hillary Jordan

#15. Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Charles F. Stanley

#16. Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

W. H. Auden

#17. First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Ron Davies

#18. Love is the answer to any sort of healing.

Louise Hay

#19. I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

Barney Frank