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• This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table

  George W. Bush

  Iran, United States, Tables

  Meeting with E.U. Leaders in Brussels, Belgium, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 22, 2005.

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• As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

  Ariel Sharon

  Moving, Israel, Long

  Interview With Matt Rees, content.time.com. May 14, 2005.

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• When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.

  Khaled Mashal

  Determination, Rights, Israel

  Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

  Joe Abercrombie

  Pain, Steel, Pity

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• All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain't no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I've learned ... just to stick in the place I'm at. Just to be the man I am.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, Sea, Rivers

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• When the curtain falls no one is ready

  Olive Schreiner

  Fall, Curtains

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Hate, Knives, Tongue

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• Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

  Lucretia Mott

  Wise, Law, Sorrow

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• I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Thinking, Ready To Die, Dies

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

  Marshall Vian Summers

  Spiritual, Heaven, Firsts

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• Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

  Larry Holmes

  Light, Wings, Boxing

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• There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Crush, Baby

  "Adam Bede".

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• The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Forgiveness, Might, Pardon

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Philibert Joseph Roux, Part 1, LXXI, 1866.

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• When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

  Kenny Chesney

  Baby, Happy Love, Ships

  Song: You Save Me, 2005

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• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

  Alison McGhee

  Powerful, People, Expectations

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• No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Christian, Pain

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• Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

  Hal Boyle

  Summer, Memories, Spring

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• We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Roots, Maps, Littles

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your ghost pours the resurrection potion out of the moka pot.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Morning, Coffee, Firsts

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• If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Adequate, Never Fear

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Men, Rifles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.

  John Banville

  Baby, Mad, Attention

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• Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Past, Men, Decision

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.559, Transaction Publishers

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• Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Trends, Outcomes, Reactions

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• To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

  George Washington

  Flags, Insult, Force

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.220

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