Not Ready Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I imagined my life, I always thought I'd be in my mid-30s before I felt capable of marrying. But I suddenly found that I'd met somebody and I said, "Screw it. I'm not gonna sit here saying, 'Oh no, I'm not ready,' and regret not having done this later on and the possibility of not having this person around." I thought, I'll jump into it and we'll figure it out as we go along.

  Christian Bale

  Regret, Done, Possibility

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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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• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

  Sara Gruen

  Real, War, What If

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• Look, I'm not ready for you," Min said. "I'm not prepared. I don't have any defenses when you're around. I make these plans and I mean it, I really do, and then I kiss you because I'm crazy about you which would be fine if I didn't fall in love with you but there that is, just standing there, and you know it, you know you've got me.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Love You

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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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• Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Strong, Fear, Stories

  "Magic Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2006.

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• Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Running, Song, Home

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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• Yelena.” I halted in the doorway, looking back over my shoulder. “You once said I wasn’t ready to believe your reason for killing Reyad. I’ll believe you now.” “But I’m not ready to tell you,” I said and left the room.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Believe, Doorways, Rooms

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.232, MIRA

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• You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

  Simone Elkeles

  Giving, Ready, Knows

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• We've been spending this kind of ramp up time from the time we started the company to now with a lot of different projects in development. What we aren't doing is saying, "We have to do this, this and this." Because the "this, this and this" might not be ready and you don't want to go and make something that's not ready.

  Susan Downey

  Different, Development, Want

  Source: collider.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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.

  Michael Angelakos

  Thinking, Healthy, Growth

  "15 Minutes with Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos". Interview with Jessica Calefati, www.motherjones.com. April 26, 2010.

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