Not Ready Quotes - Page 10

• It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

  Malcolm X

  Vocabulary, Liberty, Use

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

  Emma Bonino

  Responsibility, Should Have, Worried

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• Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Liberty, Energy

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.

  Cathy Freeman

  Issues, World, Uninformed

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• If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

  Paul Auster

  Ready, Ifs

  Paul Auster (2014). “Collected Novels Volume 1: New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace”, p.601, Faber & Faber

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• udge not, before you judge yourself.
  Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.

  Bob Marley

  Judging, Judgment, Before You Judge Me

  "Song: 'Judge Not'". 1961.

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• Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. When you are so ready, you can't do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are ripe as could be. The eggs should become more developed the older you get, not die slowly from the day you're born. That's one thing God got wrong.

  Halle Berry

  Eggs, Easier, Born

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• If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

  Ovid

  Procrastination, Today, Tomorrow

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• I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

  Emily Carr

  Density, Juice, Earth

  Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.313, D & M Publishers

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• Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

  T. S. Eliot

  Meditation, Waiting, Thyme

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

  Alexis Herman

  Children, Fundamentals, March

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• What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

  Charlie Sheen

  Gnarly, People, Guy

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• The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Inspirational, Freedom, Differences

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• That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will be self deceiving and a waste of time to advocate dialogue with those who are not ready to listen, because it is obvious that the freedom of millions is not a commodity subject to bargaining. It is better to die free than to live as slaves.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Men, Self

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• Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Garden, Important

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.

  Marissa Mayer

  Thinking, Common Threads, Two

  "How I Made It: Marissa Mayer, Google's champion of innovation and design" by Jessica Guynn, articles.latimes.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

  Margaret Atwood

  Women, Vanity, Giving

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.19, Anchor

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• If you are not ready to face opposition then you are not ready to be used by God.

  Craig Groeschel

  Faces, Used, Ready

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

  Marissa Mayer

  Motivational, Strong Women, Successful

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

  Neko Case

  Mother, Choices, Abortion

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• Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Thinking, Needs, Want

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Sports, Smart

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• If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Adequate, Never Fear

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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