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• I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

  Bill Bradley

  Track, Might, Enough

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• God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Giving, Chance

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1974). “Be Joyful”

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• Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Motivational, Dream, Trying

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pregnancy, Pride, Guilt

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• When you are ready to accept him for the imperfect man that he is, and find happiness in his imperfect company, you have definitely found love, and the two of you can create the perfect world for each other!

  Kimberly Ann Moore

  Love, Men, Two

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• Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

  Faith Popcorn

  Future, Waiting, Assuming

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.80, BookBaby

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• Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Light, Racism

  "Harry Reid’s Non-Gaffe" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2010.

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• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  E. B. White

  Political, Dying, Adults

  "The Thud of Ideas," The New Yorker, September 23, 1950.

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• There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Cynical, Moments, Should

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• Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sex, Funny Relationship, Men

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• When you wake up one day and say, "You know what? I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready (to have children).

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Baby, Sex

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

  Enid Bagnold

  Love, Sex, Pain

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• I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Fire, Hands

  'Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher' (1853)

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• I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.

  Roman Reigns

  Opportunity, Fire, Way

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mothers Day, Girl, Mom

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• I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring, or the email to pop up in our in box. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen - if they happen at all - when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready.

  Dani Shapiro

  Letting Go, Monday, Believe

  "The Manifest-Station Q&A Series: Best-Selling Author Dani Shapiro". Interview with Jennifer Pastiloff, www.themanifeststation.net. September 29, 2013.

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• The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

  Kin Hubbard

  Agreement, Skins, Fool

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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