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• If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.

  Ernst Rohm

  History, Enemy, Nazism

  Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

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• Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Morning, Ideas, Doe

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• I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

  Robert Frost

  Teaching, Writing, Cities

  Robert Frost (1995). “Collected Poems, Prose & Plays”, Severn House Paperbacks

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• I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Peace, Cousin, Brother

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• When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

  H. H. Asquith

  War, Army, Wire

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• I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Men, Years

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• You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

  George Dewey

  Fire, Navy, May

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Oct. 1899

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• We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.

  Harry Chapin

  Moving, World, Moved

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• Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Ideas

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• I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Blessing, Opportunity

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement

  Drake

  Retirement, Looks, Bragging

  Song: The Language

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• Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Real, Mistake, Writing

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• Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's

  Drake

  Relationship, Couple, Thinking

  Song: July

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• Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

  David Eddings

  Hard Work, Writing, Apprenticeship

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• [Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

  Jimmy Buffett

  Writing, Sea, Numbers

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• I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Moving, Writing, Hands

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• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Eye, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Eye, Giving

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• Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Country, Holiday

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• The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Games, Chess Game, Mind

  François Danican Philidor, Sir William Jones, Benjamin Franklin (1824). “An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: Containing One Hundred Examples of Games and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions ; Including the Whole of Philidor's Analysis with Copious Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c”, p.237

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• Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Opportunity

  "The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California".

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• The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

  Anne Geddes

  Photography, Flower, Trouble

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• We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

  David Mamet

  Government, Liberty, Principles

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

  Tom Arnold

  Football, Drug, Tests

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• To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Photography, Waiting, Able

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