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Quotes About Readiness

His soul sat up. It met me.Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say, 'I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go of course, but I will come'.
~ Markus Zusak
I'm ready now." If he'd intervened, it might have
~ Markus Zusak
We're nowhere near young enough for the present war, but when the world war comes—we'll be just right to fight it. We are, after all, a superb physical specimen. Our feet aren't flat. Our vision is clear. We're not clubfooted or Marxist or nuts. We have no conscientious objections or anything of that kind. We're perfect.
~ Martin Amis
Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a God can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the God or for the absence of the God in the time of foundering for in the face of the God who is absent, we founder. Only a God can save us.
~ Martin Heidegger
When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying to swim, "Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim." When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
preparatory to some repairs
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Courage, however, may also be explained as a readiness to meet ills that threaten at the moment, in order to avoid greater ills that lie in the future; whereas cowardice does the contrary.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
b.] be prepared to be prepared.
~ Arundhati Roy
If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.
~ Augusten Burroughs
No servía de nada complicar las cosas o confundirse a uno mismo con creencias que dan miedo. Si uno advertía cuándo empezaban a producirse los cambios pequeños, estaría más preparado para el gran cambio que antes o después seguramente se produciría.
~ Spencer Johnson
Just say you're not ready." "Does that work?" "Sometimes." I wanted to ask Sam about the other side of "sometimes," but I didn't want to be too personal, and I didn't want to know deep down.
~ Stephen Chbosky
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
~ Stephen King
When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.
~ Stephen King
Strap it on whenever it's possible.
~ Stephen King
I can feel my life changing and I'm not ready.
~ Jennifer Elisabeth
When you put on your thinking cap make sure it's clean.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.
~ Pope Francis
Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.
~ Louise Hay
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'
~ Johnny Carson
see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry "God for Harry, England, and Saint George!
~ Jonathan Bate
Nerves were on hair triggers, and if my virgin aunt had stepped out from behind those crates with a puppy in one hand and a baby in the other my guys would have capped her.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Are you ready to fight?" "We'll have to be ready, won't we? You make do with what you have.
~ Jonathan Rogers
bisogna essere preparati a tutto, anche alla felicità.
~ Emmanuel Mounier