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• And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go?

  Ian Mcewan

  Somewhere Else, Sky, People

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• I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

  Rick Riordan

  Teaching, Kids, Classroom

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• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Speaks Out, People, Choices

  "Cartoon conflicts" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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• Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

  Colin Powell

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.'' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

  Denis O'Hare

  Blood, Feet, Fans

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• People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Party, People

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• You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

  Simone Elkeles

  Giving, Ready, Knows

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

  Kevin Costner

  Military, War, Men

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• I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Couple, Gay

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• When I imagined my life, I always thought I'd be in my mid-30s before I felt capable of marrying. But I suddenly found that I'd met somebody and I said, "Screw it. I'm not gonna sit here saying, 'Oh no, I'm not ready,' and regret not having done this later on and the possibility of not having this person around." I thought, I'll jump into it and we'll figure it out as we go along.

  Christian Bale

  Regret, Done, Possibility

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• So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Children, Couple, Home

  "Inside Rupert Murdoch's lair: His life, his rules". www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2011.

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• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

  Sara Gruen

  Real, War, What If

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• Look, I'm not ready for you," Min said. "I'm not prepared. I don't have any defenses when you're around. I make these plans and I mean it, I really do, and then I kiss you because I'm crazy about you which would be fine if I didn't fall in love with you but there that is, just standing there, and you know it, you know you've got me.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Love You

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• Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Strong, Fear, Stories

  "Magic Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2006.

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• Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Running, Song, Home

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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• Yelena.” I halted in the doorway, looking back over my shoulder. “You once said I wasn’t ready to believe your reason for killing Reyad. I’ll believe you now.” “But I’m not ready to tell you,” I said and left the room.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Believe, Doorways, Rooms

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.232, MIRA

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• I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Mom, Dog

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• Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Sadness, Leaving, Soul

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• There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.

  Josh Tickell

  Technology, Oil, Government

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• I try to balance work and play. I'm really grateful that I can kind of have that philosophy, so I can try to get out of the city as much as possible, even though I love the city and I'm not ready to leave it.

  Jorja Fox

  Philosophy, Grateful, Play

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• Fundamentally, Buddhism is for the awakenment and benefit of beings. So, you can't say, "Oh, you can't have it because you're not ready for it." That goes against the fundamental principle.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhism, Fundamentals, Benefits

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."

  Beth Ditto

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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• If things come up, we can say, "We're not ready for this, let's move some things around."

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Moving, Come Up, Ready

  "BWW Interview: The Ensemblist Podcast Returns for a Second Season". Interview with Ashlee Latimer, www.broadwayworld.com. September 4, 2016.

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• 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.

  Esther Hicks

  Want, Speed, Ready

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• If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.

  Edward Boyden

  Interesting, Brain, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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