Ready Quotes - Page 19

• I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Ruling, Knows

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• What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

  Theodore Roethke

  Feelings, Done, Dear God

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.206, Copper Canyon Press

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• A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

  Atul Gawande

  Differences, Risk, Triumph

  "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.

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• What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Choices, Economic

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. May 24, 2009.

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• So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Long, Humanity

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1862). “The Duties of Man”, p.94

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• Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it

  Mary Rowlandson

  Wish, Affliction, Sometimes

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.104, Diderot Publishing

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• One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

  Henry Moore

  Important, Each Day, Awareness

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• I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

  Terry Goodkind

  Moving, Writing, Blow

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• That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

  Alex Turner

  Thinking, Glasses, Rocks

  "Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner uses Brit Awards speech to say ‘Rock’n’roll will never die’ – watch". www.nme.com. February 19, 2014.

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• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Asking Why, Views

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.12, Black Classic Press

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• The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Sports, Risk, Racing

  "Sebastian Vettel says Dan Wheldon's death highlights need for safety". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Arrogance, Let It Go, Wealth

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.57, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Crazy, Extroverts, Stuff

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Night

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• Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

  Steven Pressfield

  Good Things, Happens, Things Happen

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.21, Black Irish Books

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• Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.

  Steven Pressfield

  Preparation, Brain, Enemy

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• Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they're ready.

  Doug Ferguson

  Sports, Mean, Golf

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• The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

  Liam Williams

  Eggs, Bird, Preparation

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• You have to be ready for luck.

  Neil Leifer

  Photography, Luck

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• I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

  Channing Tatum

  Song, Sex, Crazy

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear.
  If not the first, the fairest of the year;
  For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours,
  And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers.
  When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun
  The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Flower, Moving

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.273

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• The first time I had sex, I was scared I got the girl pregnant. And that was despite the fact we were safe. Luckily, we were fine. I would never risk not wearing a condom, it’s too much of a risk. If you’re not ready for a child, then don’t risk it.

  Harry Styles

  Girl, Sex, Children

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• Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.

  Bill Hicks

  Sleep, Dies

  Bill Hicks (2009). “Love All the People (New Edition)”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Running, Hot And Cold

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