Unready Quotes

#1. The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Henry Taylor

#3. The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

Moshe Dayan

#4. Some men may be unready
for the coming of the genie
who grants three wishes.

Toba Beta

#5. There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

Antoine Rivarol

#6. Moreover, unready as you are, you don't need such a great martyr's cross. If you had killed father, I would regret that you rejected your cross. But you're innocent, and such a cross is too much for you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. To reveal a truth to a man unready to accept it is three sins at once. It makes him disbelieve in the truth, makes him think wrongly about you, and makes him say the truth is nonsense
- Hermis Tresmegistus, the founder of astronomy

Gerard Russell

#8. In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Thomas Shepard

#9. Bounds should be set
To ingenuity for being so cruel
In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

Robert Frost

#10. Better the cruelty of family than loving neglect that leaves a child unready for a savage universe.

Morgan Blayde

#11. you sometimes feel totally unready for them, or even that they're

Meg Wolitzer

#12. The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

Peggy Noonan

#13. Your master will bestow that experience shortly. Your body is not tuned just yet. As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current. If I gave you the infinite ecstasy right now, you would burn as if every cell were on fire.

Yogananda Paramhansa

#14. If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success
Ethelred The Unready

Robert Asprin

#15. 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

#16. I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

Edgar A. Guest

#17. It wasn't that Ed would make it okay
he had his own problems to deal with
but somehow the sum of them added up to something better. They would make it okay.

Jojo Moyes

#18. What makes us love a character is a character that tries.

Annette Bening

#19. 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

#20. I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

Kabir

#21. A chap wouldn't hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

Sara Sheridan

#22. I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.

Jenna Talackova

#23. Whipped cream can remind you why it's good to be alive.

Deb Caletti

#24. We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive ... by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

Andy Andrews

#25. 'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.

Jeff Lemire