"When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear."
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"Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic."
"You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through."
"You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'."
"So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life."
"You're never completely ready...It just becomes your turn."
"Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments."
"When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance."
"These wretched babies don't come until they are ready."
"I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go."
"Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue."
"I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it."
"If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences."
"Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray."
"Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now."
"I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize"
"Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump"
"Every successful person I know starts before they feel ready."
"Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones."
"You've got to be ready for the fastball."