Readiness Quotes - Page 10

• Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

  Nigel Dennis

  Self, Risk, Humiliation

  Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

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• No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Judging, Anxiety

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• We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Believe, Hard Work, Perfect

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• Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spring, Flower, Cutting

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Men, Years

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• We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.

  Pope Francis

  Christ, Mary, Unconditional

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• Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

  Norman Mailer

  Class, People, History

  "In the Ring" by Norman Mailer, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2008.

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• A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Circles, People, Goal

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• There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.

  Vernon Lee

  Eye, Good Luck, Mean

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Powerful, Hatred, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Crush, Country, Blow

  "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today" by David Hafemeister, (p. 94), 1991.

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• When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Dance, Essence

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.228, Random House

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• Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Husband, Wife, Adultery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.

  Andrei Grechko

  Country, Party, Government

  "Soviet Civil Defense". Book by Leon Gouré, p. 5, 1971.

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• If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Sacrifice, Judging

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Crowds, Standing Out

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

  Tony Blair

  War, Chance, Sometimes

  "Blair promises to be bolder" by Mark Davies, news.bbc.co.uk. October 1, 2002.

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• It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness.

  Joseph Priestley

  Art, Philosophy, Practice

  Joseph Priestley (2013). “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Jobs, Done, Undoing

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

  Charles Dickens

  Reflection, Ideas, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1861). “All the Year Round”, p.436

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• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Selfish, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.448, Modern Library

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• faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

  Margaret Deland

  Faith, Believe, Heart

  Margaret Deland (2015). “John Ward, Preacher”, p.427, The Floating Press

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• We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Space, Imagination, Cinema

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, People, House

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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