Ready Quotes - page 2

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. (William James)
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. View quote
William Hazlitt
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. View quote
William Hazlitt
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. View quote
Jack Kerouac
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it? View quote
Anne Bancroft
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. View quote
E. M. Forster
I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. View quote
Mohammed Omar
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. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. View quote
George Santayana
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. View quote
Anthony Trollope
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. View quote
George Orwell
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. View quote
Francis Bacon
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. View quote
William Blake
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. View quote
Will Rogers
We are always getting ready to live but never living. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. (Erich Fromm)
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them. View quote
Famke Janssen
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. View quote
Pat Riley
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. View quote
William James
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