Ripe Quotes

• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, War, Philosophical

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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• Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Personality, Made

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “The Prayers of Kierkegaard”, p.134, University of Chicago Press

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• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Graduation, Hope

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

  Laozi

  Failure, Rushing, Trying

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• My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Hands, Ripe Fruit, Instruments

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.387, Univ of California Press

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• There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

  Publilius Syrus

  Fruit, Bitter

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• If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

  Dorothy Height

  Ifs

  "Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

  Ida Tarbell

  Understanding, Age, Cheerful

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• In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

  Jay Smith

  Queens, Eight, Cells

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• A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Moving, Fall

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.309, Transaction Publishers

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• True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Love, Fruit, Lifetime

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

  Art Smith

  Country, Live Life, Two

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• Her hair that lay along her back
  Was yellow like ripe corn.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Hair, Yellow, Blonde

  'The Blessed Damozel' st. 2

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• You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

  Frosty Westering

  Mcdonalds, Growing, Rotting

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• I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Believe, Skills, Differences

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• In opening China, the English have secured their presence in East Asia. If we don't commit more resources to get into Southeast Asia now, they or Germany, or even little Belgium might find it ripe for the taking.

  Jules Ferry

  Asia, Germany, East

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• We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Movie, Scary, Trying

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• The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Lying, Views, Stories

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• I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

  Huey Lewis

  Thinking, Age, Tap Dancers

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• Don't be polite.
  Bite in.
  Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
  It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
  You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.
  For there is no core
  or stem
  or rind
  or pit
  or seed
  or skin
  to throw away.

  Eve Merriam

  Running, Knives, Skins

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• Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

  Thomas Willis

  Broken Heart, Men, Parent

  "Psychological problems in mental deficiency" by Seymour B. Sarason, p. 211, 1969.

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• In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this anti attitude, ego never becomes strong, never comes to a point of integration from where it can be thrown. It is never ripe. So in the East it is very difficult to dissolve the ego, almost impossible.

  Rajneesh

  Strong, Attitude, Ego

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• It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your ego, you must attain it. Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground. Ripeness is all. An unripe ego cannot be thrown, cannot be destroyed. And if you struggle with an unripe ego to destroy and dissolve it, the whole effort is going to be a failure. Rather than destroying it, you will find it more strengthened, in new and subtle ways.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Struggle, Effort

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• The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

  Cullen Hightower

  Life, Age, Fleeting

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• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Flower, Yield

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