Best Ready Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 16

“We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Self Happens Energy Sacrifice Ready Fellows Expected Length Fellow Man Self Sacrifice Condescending

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out with your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born.”

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!”

Men Should Enough Ready Duty

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.”

Night Left Sun Sky Streets Ready Window Evening Tea Seats Every Night Lamps Ladders Lanterns Tea Time

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit. Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.”

Men Should Enough Might Law Moral Ready Bases Determined Likes Familiar Suits Ice Prophet Sinner Rough Cream Ice Cream Grandeur Eccentric Steak Reactionaries Crank

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.”

Long Faces Evil Given Hours Trouble Ready Birth Tomorrow Late Cures Too Late Delay Haste Not Ready

Author:Ovid

“While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Has Beens Hard Problem Able Politics President Results Opinion Gone Ready Hard Work Office Intuition Solve Gifted Disadvantages

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.”

Three Courage Ready Battle Yield Grim Cannons Sponges Mustache Recruit Muzzle

Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

“He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.”

Heart Courage Ready Despair Solitary Consolation Peril Comrade Countenance Pluck Camaraderie

Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”

Source: The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…

“[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their association she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.”

“Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.”

Knows World Way Needs Order Boys Figures Willing Ready Keys Seals Keepers

Author:James A. Baldwin

“There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for theother fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.”

Source: My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography

“The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.”

Years States Girl Work Ready Activity Capable Hundred Ideals Womanhood Earnest Descendants Dreamy Sturdy Hampshire New Hampshire

Author:Lucy Larcom

“Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?”

Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos

“A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.”

Way Reading Loses Money Half Ready Friends Six Refuse Equality Dozen

Book:Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children

Source: Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children

“How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.”

Long Poetry Ready Poet Wide Copies Expenses Sweetness Pretense

Book:The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum

Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum

“Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.”

People Knows Giving Able Natural Ready Creatures Insight Competent Natural History Sixth Sense Cameraman

Author:David Attenborough

“I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.”

Thinking Knows World Self Hard Player Ready Creatures Self Worth Alternatives Tennis Tennis Player My Self Worth You Re The Best

Author:Martina Navratilova

“When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight... The less they know the surer they are about it.”

Knows Littles Matter Running Ready Scientist Riot Talkers Pseudo Jargon Limelight

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.”

Mother Ready Behavior Yeah Restriction Prohibition Saying Yes Toddler

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”

“Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.”

Knows Men Feet Ready Mediums Leap Lap Courtship Fawns Spaniels

Book:The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes

Source: The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes

“Explorers have to be ready to die lost.”

Dies Lost Ready Explorers Ready To Die

Author:Russell Hoban

“Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”