Not Ready Quotes - Page 6

• During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Wings, Paris, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

  Jim Rohn

  Needs, Chance, Settling

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• There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

  Ricardo Semler

  Jurassic Park, Way, Parks

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• I'm not ready to pack my bags and leave the town and my business that I love and my kids that I love more than anything and pack them up and come to Hollywood. I love California. I love Hollywood. But I'm not ready to uproot what I believe in to come to Hollywood.

  Dwight Henry

  Believe, Kids, California

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I'm going to pretend like I don't want my son to hear the rock. I'm going to listen to it only in my private chambers. He'll hear echoes of it and say: "What was that you were listening to papa?" And I'll say: "Nothing son, you're not ready."

  Jack Black

  Kids, Son, Echoes

  "Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny - Jack Black/Kyle Gass Interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they're early, so naturally you're not ready.

  Phyllis Diller

  Guests, Matter, Ready

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• 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

  Running, People, Vision

  "New DNC Ad Criticizes McCain Over Negative Attack Ads" by Nicholas Graham, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2008.

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• At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Believe, Home

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• Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure
  When long delay has given the evil strength.
  Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
  He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

  Ovid

  Long, Evil, Haste

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• I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.

  Todd Haynes

  Giving Up, Bisexual, Unique

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I've been on shows that went for years and years and years, and I was not ready for that again.

  Jason Momoa

  Years, Shows, Ready

  Source: collider.com

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• Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together.

  George Carlin

  People, Interesting, Trying

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• This is my 51st year, but I'm not ready to quit. I definitely didn't think when I first started back in 1963 that I'd be doing this for 50 years, but how many guys can say they do it? When retirement comes, I'm not sure when it is, but I'll be ready for it.

  Verne Lundquist

  Retirement, Thinking, Years

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• One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Looks, Chiefs, Ready

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• 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

  Thinking, Doe, Likes

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• If you're not ready to consider marriage or you're not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it's selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically.

  Joshua Harris

  Selfish, Needs, Need You

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.55, Multnomah

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• 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

  Emotional, Twenties, Paper

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• 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

  Thinking, Hot, Doe

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• I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.

  Judy Blume

  Sorry, Regret, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Mar 16, 2013

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• As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.

  Bill Bryson

  Hygiene, Needs, Thumbs

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream”, p.121, Random House

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• There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

  J. G. Holland

  Courage, Fighting, Blow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 166, 1895.

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• 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

  Children, Cutting, Fighting

  "Be Careful What You Cut" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

  Miranda July

  Girl, Dog, War

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Giving Up, Forgiving, Repentance

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• 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

  Crazy, Thinking, Rooms

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