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In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America. -- Andrew Tobias
Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary -- Anuj Somany
Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary. -- Anuj
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. -- Dean Koontz
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. -- Julius Caesar
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. -- William Penn
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. -- Henry Taylor
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. -- Jane Addams
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. -- James Harvey Robinson
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children. -- Ho Chi Minh
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. -- Emile Durkheim
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. -- Vivek Wadhwa
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. -- Jaron Lanier
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. -- Paul Dirac
What we wish, that we readily believe. -- Demosthenes
Nothing begets friendship so readily as trouble. -- Sholem Aleichem
The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. -- Francis Bacon
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. -- Thomas Love Peacock
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed. -- Marcel Proust
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. -- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach
Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power. -- Natalie Dormer
Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on. -- Scott Turow
We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water. -- Steven Johnson
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women. -- Marilyn Monroe
When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful. -- Lissa Rankin
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. -- Kate Beckinsale
...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them. -- Xenophon
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered. -- Robert A. Dahl
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it -- Seneca
C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process. -- Cedric Price
Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available. -- Cassandra Duffy
The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded -- Heinrich Von Kleist
One who sees the weakness of his strength can also leverage the strength of his weakness, readily, to his advantage. -- Anuj Somany
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. -- Victor Hugo
I do, I'm afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with. -- Katherine Rundell
Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed. -- Alan Jacobs
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. -- Robertson Davies
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. -- Fredrik Bajer
God will send aid to no one more readily than He will send it to a child--and to the parent of a child. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. -- Jane Austen
WHEN A RESTLESS spirit is commissioned, under influence, to solve a riddle for another man, his energies are, at first, readily and faithfully applied. -- Eleanor Catton
That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic. -- John Galsworthy
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. -- Martha Gellhorn
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh. -- Mike Pence
I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive. -- Karen E. Quinones Miller
How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it. -- Virginia Woolf
Then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in -- Walter Isaacson
Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely. -- Charles Darwin
I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot. -- Peter Dinklage
If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind. -- Napoleon Hill
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. -- Jose Saramago
Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based. -- Tyra Banks
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods. -- Robert Schumann
The thing about fathers is that they are human. But, they stay bent on being heroes to their children, readily willing to give themselves up to effect improbable rescues. -- Srini Chandra
[...] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America. -- Mohsin Hamid
For our third date, Agatha said she wanted to pay separately. And I wouldn't have readily agreed had I known she also meant she wanted to eat separately too. -- Jarod Kintz
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs. -- Martin Filler
Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers? -- Sam Harris
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. -- Samuel George Morton
One brain's blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part, on the DNA he has chanced to receive. (152) -- Thomas Lewis
The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations. -- Nelson A. Miles
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. -- Simon Greenleaf
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed. -- Mike Carey
You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others. -- Toni Sorenson
How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry. -- David Markson
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print -- John Clare
Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good. -- Robert Fortune
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. -- C. S. Forester
That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit. -- Emile Durkheim
The gods never send us this invitation to delight so readily or so strongly as when they are preparing some new agony. We are their bubbles; they blow us big before they prick us. -- C. S. Lewis
I decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advanceIt's your book, he saidI -- Walter Isaacson
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. -- Horatio Alger
Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late. -- Stephen Richards
I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined. -- Marilynne Robinson
An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world whoknows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let'sface it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damnattention! -- Aditi Mathur Kumar
We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold. -- William James
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure. -- Leo Buscaglia
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. -- William Falconer
And as for herself, if she could manage to welcome sorrow as readily as joy, it would shape her as deftly as joy could have to whatever beauty of being it was within her power to reach... -- Elizabeth Goudge
The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved. -- Rebecca Solnit
A person's open mind is distinctly defined by his caring soul that can readily find the real image of the people's character and its true kind through their words reflecting and echoing the voice of their heart. -- Anuj Somany
The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction. -- Edward Gibbon
Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge curses us, if we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. And it becomes difficult to share our knowledge with others because we can't readily re-create our listener's state of mind. -- Chip Heath
How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us. -- Hisham Matar
I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children. -- Michael McCaul
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
The Fawleys were not made for wedlock: it never seemed to sit well upon us. There's sommat in our blood that won't take kindly to the notion of being bound to do what we do readily enough if not bound. ... -- Thomas Hardy
The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms. -- Arthur Capper
For when you are on the spot, disorders are detected in their beginnings and remedies can be readily applied; but when you are at a distance, they are not heard of until they have gathered strength and the case is past cure. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007. -- Jamie Bamber
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a soft whisper coming from the beating one's heart. It's gentle rhythm gives you a feeling of ecstasy you cannot readily fathom for it's not easily defined nor there are finite reasons as to why it is felt by someone. -- Elizabeth E. Castillo
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. -- Sonia Sotomayor
The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe. -- Christopher Gist
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? -- Terry Pratchett
Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques. -- J. G. Ballard
It's from the newspapers that people I know - relatives and co-workers - have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic against Alzheimer's. Newspapers are of course also the place where crosswords (and now sudokus) are most readily available, so the association is presumably good for circulation. -- Alan Connor
Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built. -- Max Heindel
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. -- Fred Brooks
If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available. -- Chris Cannon
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered. -- Jane Austen
There was little comfort, this voice inside him said, in discovering a mystery at the wellspring of his life so banal his unremarkable mind could readily fathom it. Better, perhaps, to die in doubt, knowing there was some revelation still unfound, than to pursue and possess such a wretched certainty. -- Clive Barker
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality. -- Criss Jami
Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we can live with are falling away,and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image.Will beneath crusts which readily crackwhenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. -- Aristotle
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. -- Nikola Tesla
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. -- Charles Spurgeon
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by. -- Isaac Newton
The costs of military service are substantial. Many costs are readily apparent; others are less apparent but no less important. Among the most pervasive and potentially disabling consequences of these costs is the threat to the psychological health of our nation's fighting forces, and their families, and their survivors. -- Department of Defense Task Force, 2007 -- Jay Kopelman

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