Ripe Quotes

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Fruit, Bitter

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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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• Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

  Walt Whitman

  Autumn, Giving, Juicy

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.57, New York Review of Books

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• For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

  William Wordsworth

  Faults, Blame, Virtue

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, May, Revolution

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

  Frosty Westering

  Mcdonalds, Growing, Rotting

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• It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Men, Today

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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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• I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.

  Sherry Lansing

  Retirement, Past, Two

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• Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.

  Roger Swain

  Education, Dream, Home

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• If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Giving, Creative

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• One shouldn’t despair over the fact that some of the developments one has hoped for were never produced but only became a beginning. Perhaps they will be revived some day in the future if necessary or reasonable, when the time is ripe

  Finn Juhl

  Despair, Development, Facts

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• Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

  Lucretia Mott

  Wise, Law, Sorrow

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• I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

  Lou Reed

  Wyoming, Age, Raises

  "Lou Reed v Lester Bangs: a classic interview from the vaults" by Lester Bangs, www.theguardian.com. November 08, 2011.

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• The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.

  Nabil Elaraby

  Regions, Whole

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• Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

  Kiki Dimoula

  Fall, Care, Fruit

  Source: blog.yupnet.org

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• Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Writing, Good Luck, Science

  W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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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 remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style of movies that make fun of movies. I think it needs to be done. All of these movies are ripe for being poked at.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Fun, Airplane, Thinking

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• I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had noticed that baseball announcers seemed to go right on forever. Bob Elson has been calling balls and strikes since the beginning of time. Harry Caray must have started with Abner Doubleday, and was still going strong.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Sports, Baseball, Strong

  Lindsey Nelson (1985). “Hello everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson”, William Morrow & Company

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