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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. – Jose Ortega y Gasset	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower. – Edith Hamilton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the ultimate word on every subject under the sun from how to handle the Russians to why undergraduates riot in the spring. Profound with a wit that bubbles up and brims over in a cascade of brilliance. You may have guessed who the leading candidate is, but there is a question about him Is God a Yale man – Wilmarth S. Lewis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. – Cesare Lombroso	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table. – Charlie Manuel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Paul's evangelistic mission was different from the Kingdom Apostles, but in many ways the same. The Kingdom Apostles preached Jesus the Messiah, ready to return to Israel and set up His Messianic Kingdom. From Israel, the Apostles, with Christ on David's Throne, were to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe everything Christ had commanded them. They would do that because all authority in heaven and on earth had been given to Christ. As we all know, that did not happen. It will happen in the future, but it has not yet happened. What has happened is that Christ revealed a Mystery through His Special Apostle Paul. – Mark McGee	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. – Henry Moore	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always. – Katherine Anne Porter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. – Franois Auguste Ren Rodin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way. – Imgard Schloegl	added by anonymous 14 years ago
...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through. – Starhawk	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand. – Adlai Ewing Stevenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels. – Anthony Trollope	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen – Evelyn Waugh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. – James Gordon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. – Aaron Hill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. – Dan Quayle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid. – Jed Seidel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. – Artemus Ward	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace. – David Ben-Gurion	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You look as if you're ready for bed. (to the Nigerian President, who was dressed in traditional robes) – Prince Phillip	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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