“Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.” PeopleIfsTodayViolenceReadyKillingIntenseCuresEmergenciesFascinationDiscomfortSerials Author:Leonard Cohen
“You have to be ready to receive help, whether that be through a book, a therapist or counselor, or a doctor of some kind. That willingness can lead you through a door to the other side, and that's where healing can truly begin.” KindBookHelpingSidesHealingDoorsReadyDoctorsWillingnessTherapistsCounselor Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person.” TryingPersonsKidsArtistCertainReadyPersonalityIndustryFindingsMatureTrendsNicheDotsBending Author:Kendrick Lamar
“One day as a young man, I was walking down the streets. And a group of Zulu guys was walking behind me closing in on me. And I could hear them talking to one another about how they were going to mug me. (Speaking Zulu). Let's get this white guy. You go to his left, and I'll come up behind him. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't run.So I just spun around real quick and said (speaking Zulu). Yo, guys, why don't we just mug someone together? I'm ready.” KnowsMenSaidRealRunningTogetherYoungGuyLeftWhiteBehindsTalkingGroupsStreetsReadyWalkingOne DayCome UpYoung ManClosingSpunWhite GuysMug Author:Trevor Noah
“We know what hair smells like when a hot comb hits it. That's a cultural thing. We know what that smells like on Sunday mornings, usually church-related or something. In my house, it was getting ready for church and your sister was getting her hair fried.” KnowsHouseChurchMorningReadyHairHotSmellRelatedSundayCombsSunday Morning Author:Denzel Washington
“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."” IfsBookYoungActingStudentsReadyTheaterShootingFenceCarnegieViolaYoung StudentsUnderstudiesCarnegie Mellon Author:Denzel Washington
“Our foreign ministries will simply need to sort out some purely technical matters. I see no political restraints here. The same applies to economic matters. We, on our part, are ready. However, let me repeat once again, given that Japan has joined the anti-Russian sanctions, how ready is Japan and how can it do that without breaching its commitments to its allies? We do not know the answer. Only Japan itself knows the answer.” KnowsNeedsMatterPoliticalGivenAnswersEconomicReadyCommitmentLet MeRepeatsJapanAlliesMinistryRestraintSanctions Author:Vladimir Putin
“We believe we have no territorial problems at all. It is only Japan that believes it has territorial problems with Russia. We are ready to talk about this.” BelieveProblemReadyRussiaJapanTerritorial Author:Vladimir Putin
“Now we are talking about concluding a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Council, recently established in the post-Soviet space, and China. A similar agreement was concluded a short time ago with Vietnam. Then, we will coordinate, at least we are ready to do this, the Chinese concept of the Silk Road Economic Belt with our newly-created regional organisation. So, do you understand how diverse, multi-faceted and deep Russian-Chinese ties have become over the last couple of decades? And we resolved the border issue.” LastsSpaceTalkingIssuesEconomicReadyCoupleConceptsTradeChinaDecadesPostsChineseBordersTiesAgreementVietnamSovietDiverseCouncilBeltsOrganisationSilkShort TimeFree TradeCoordinatesTrade AgreementsConcludingSilk Road Author:Vladimir Putin
“You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.” IfsThinkingWholeLanguageSpaceReadyMusicianNotesNotionMusicalScalesSequenceSyntax Author:Jerry Garcia
“It is well known, widely known that the US President-elect [Donald Trump] has publicly spoken in favour of normalising Russian-American relations. We cannot but support this. Of course, we understand that it will not be an easy job, taking into account the degree to which Russian-American relations have degraded. But we are ready to cover our part of the way.” WayWellsJobsCoursesEasyPresidentKnownSupportReadyTrumpDegreesAccountsRelationWell KnownFavourUs President Author:Vladimir Putin
“In the area of international security, taking into account that the United States and Russia are the largest nuclear powers: We are ready to jointly work to strengthen the non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. We are ready to work together, and much closer than before, on the problem of fighting terrorism, international terrorism, and here we certainly have vast opportunities.” MeanStatesProblemTogetherFightingOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesSecurityReadyWeaponsMassAreasDestructionAccountsInternationalTerrorismNuclearRussiaWorking TogetherRegimesNational SecurityWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionDeliveryNuclear PowerProliferationFighting TerrorismInternational Terrorism Author:Vladimir Putin
“As far as I understand, the president-elect of the United States [Donald Trump] is ready for such joint work. We do not know yet what it will be like in actual practice. We have to wait for him to take office and form his administration.” KnowsStatesFormWaitingPresidentUnitedPracticeUnited StatesReadyTrumpOfficeAdministrationJointsWait For Him Author:Vladimir Putin
“We are ready to meet [with Donald Trump] at any time, this is no problem for us, but I believe we should be patient and wait for the complicated process of forming the new administration to be complete.” ShouldBelieveProblemI BelieveWaitingProcessReadyTrumpPatientComplicatedAdministrationNo ProblemBe Patient Author:Vladimir Putin
“When people come to my shows they know there is a distinct beginning and end. It's difficult for me to play for much more than an hour, so people kind of come out and treat it like a rock show. They're fiending and ready to dance.” PeopleKnowsKindEndsPlayShowsDifficultHoursRocksReadyTreatsBeginnings And Ends Author:Girl Talk
“I don't think the political class has the slightest idea even yet what is in store for them. And I'll tell you something else, too. I'm not sure, based on a couple things, that even the Republicans in the House and Senate are ready for this. I mean, the breakneck pace with which Trump is going to attempt to get his agenda implemented and the techniques and the methods that he will use to do so.” ThinkingMeanIdeasUsePoliticalHouseClassReadyTrumpCoupleRepublicanMethodStoresTechniqueNot SureAgendasPaceSenateCouple Things Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.” ShowsHandsLinesExistencePaintingReadyVoidInkFertileFertilityAusterity Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.” BodyReadyWeakHarmMicrobes Author:Swami Vivekananda
“In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.” PeopleSpeakDoorsFrontsReadyManhattanFront Doors Author:Quentin Crisp
“[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.” FirstsStillsYoungSongStrongTermRocksReadyStonesGratefulZonePeterBobRollingRock And RollDylanRolling StonesGoing StrongCrosbyTchaikovskyRock And Roll MusicSantana Author:Bill Walton
“I've got my iPod and I've got it on shuffle. If I'm not ready for one, I'll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.” IfsChildrenEndsNextWifeWeekReadyOur ChildrenMy WifeRepeatsAdamClicksNot ReadyLukeIpodsThe Next OneShuffle Author:Bill Walton
“One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.” WellsReadyBe GoodSpontaneousJackieSids Author:Debbie Reynolds
“'How the West was Won' was very hard, because it was a three cameras technique, meaning three cameras wide. Therefore I wasn't speaking to my fellow performer, I was speaking to a camera, or a line next to the camera. It was difficult to do, because its not real acting. I had to pretend that I was 'seeing' Agnes Moorhead or Jimmy Stewart or Carroll Baker. I wasn't, I was acting to a drawn line. It took me personally two years to make the film, because my character starts at age 16 and I end up being 92 years old in the film. By the end of that production, I was ready for a long nap.” YearsLongTwoRealEndsHardCharacterAgeFilmThreeNextDifficultLinesActingSeeingReadyCamerasFellowsWestProductionsWideTechniqueTwo YearsPerformersJimmyNapsBakersJimmy Stewart Author:Debbie Reynolds
“The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.” PeopleReadyIsraelConvincedPalestinian Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.” MadeHardTodayClearViolenceReadyHard WorkReflectionWestIsraelWorthyRegionsAbandonStatus QuoGazaEngulfing Author:Barack Obama
“It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.” HardReadyHard WorkAbandon Author:Vijay Prashad
“There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The countries that have nuclear weapons deploy them ready for use and have doctrines saying that they would use them in certain circumstances.” WorldCountryUseCertainPlanetsReadyCircumstancesWeaponsNuclearNineDoctrineNuclear Weapons Author:John Burroughs
“One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.” StepsFrontsReadyOne DayDecidedGuitarStudiosSatRecording Studio Author:Johnny Cash
“I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.” PeopleKnowsSaidTwoVoiceAttentionFireHeardReadyPaperDestroyingClayColumnsAttention SpanShort Attention SpansSimply Said Author:Nat Hentoff
“I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings and the long-awaited ability to see their families... In short, suffering. No one complained, though! They kept repeating: we are so grateful for the care taken of our safety, for feeling. They were ready to surrender a good deal of their human dignity, individuality, freedom of choice.” PeopleHumansLongImportantEndsFeelingsCareSufferingChoicesAbilityDealsTakenReadyTvsLosingDignitySafetyGratefulMeetingsIndividualitySurrenderHolidayAirportsFreedom Of ChoiceHuman DignityAbility To SeeSo GratefulStrandedBusiness Meeting Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“As long as we say: "Alright, it is truth for me, and I believe in it and I am ready to fight for it, but I accept that others have different beliefs - and so let me have a closer look at what they believe" - we can gain from our intercourse thanks to our difference, not despite our difference.” BelieveLooksLongDifferentFightingBeliefI BelieveDifferencesAcceptingReadyGainsLet MeI Believe InDespiteThanksIntercourseAlrightDifferent Beliefs Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“A couple of years ago, my wife, Erica, and I were getting our daughter ready for school and an image of President [Barack] Obama was on one of the morning shows. And I said, oh, look, Carina, there's the president. You can be president one day. And she said, right away, that's for boys. And so right away I said, oh, no, you can be a doctor. You can be a lawyer. You can be anything you want. You can be president.” WantYearsLooksSaidShowsSchoolPresidentBoysMorningWifeReadyCoupleOne DayDaughterYears AgoDoctorsMy WifeLawyerBarackPresident Barack ObamaOur Daughter Author:Julian Castro
“[People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.” PeopleDifferencesReadyVoteVotingGoing Out Author:Julian Castro
“We're just not ready for the retirement of the Baby Boomers. And we'd better prepare for that.” ReadyBabyRetirementNot ReadyBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Paul Ryan
“[Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually inferior and have to make up for that by using their sexuality to get ahead. That women of color are angry, irrational, lazy, and always ready to get into a fight for no reason. That men in the workplace can say incredibly racist and sexist things, and as long as they make more money than their competitors, the racist and sexist things they say and do are totally acceptable.” MenLongStatesReasonFightingExampleColorReadyTrumpAngrySexualitySettingSettingsLazyRacistNo ReasonAcceptableMore MoneyInferiorsIrrationalWorkplaceCompetitorsWorldviewIncompetentSexistGet Ahead Author:Jennifer Pozner
“[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation further with myself, some other individual pops up, like David McKenzie did, with this idea of making this film [Teknolust], and provides exactly the leap to the next adventure.” IdeasFilmUniverseNextIndividualAdventureReadyConversationPopsLeapVery NiceNext Adventure Author:Tilda Swinton
“Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.” ThinkingKindDifferentPartyReadyRepublicanSouthHearingDifferent KindsRepublican PartyPollsUnwillingRatingJason Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“Jesus is not "out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all - all but the sin. So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help" (Heb. 4:15 - 16 MSG).” GivingHelpingRealityJesusSinWalksAcceptingReadyWeaknessMercyTestingMsg Author:Max Lucado
“Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.” ThinkingLeaderReadyPoliticianAppreciateCanadaTelling The Truth Author:Kevin O'Leary
“I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.” WorldRunningOpportunityViewsTreeEffectsFieldsReadyRedTownsProfoundTrackTinyMilesExplorationDirtPatchesWheatRailroadsOklahomaRailroad TracksDirt Roads Author:Chelsea Manning
“I think there are so many guys coming up that are ready to bust loose. All they need is that one little flame of confidence that starts the inferno. And when you get those guys, once it starts happening, nothing can stop you. And you can tell which guys have it. You always know which guys have it.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsLittlesGuyReadyHappeningsFlamesInferno Author:Chris Jericho
“I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.” ThinkingMindReadyTongueFantasticFilmmakerSharp Tongue Author:John Hurt
“When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something.” FirstsMadeSelfEnoughMomentsShowsSelf EsteemReadyMastersDadMy DadEsteemUncomfortableSoloSpotlightSelf Esteem And Confidence Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.” LooksWorstReadyMajority Author:Mitch McConnell
“It doesn't matter how much more you have in your bank; if 50,000 people show up to your opponents' rallies and you only have a few hundred people, it says a lot about what the people of America are ready to do.” PeopleIfsMatterShowsAmericaReadyHundredOpponents Author:Shailene Woodley
“I went through the communist children's movement at the age of nine, in 1930, and into the Young Communist League in 1936. The Spanish civil war brought me back. I'd already broken with the communists - or the Stalinists, more precisely - in 1935. But the civil war in Spain and the desire to aid the remarkable people struggling against Fascism brought me back to the Young Communist League, so that I could effectively participate, however far removed from Spain, in their struggle. By 1938 I was ready to be expelled. By 1939 I was expelled.” PeopleChildrenWarAgeYoungDesireStruggleMovementReadyBrokenAidsNineLeagueCivil WarRemarkableCommunistFascismSpain1930sSpanish Civil War Author:Murray Bookchin
“Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.” ThinkingBelieveIdeasEndsShowsInspirationStudyWrittenExampleReadyHabitMarkLeavingRestaurantsThe End Of The DayConcentrationCopiesBreakfastLegendsTwelveCigarGood ExamplesNapkins Author:William P. Perry