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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. -- Bashar al-Assad
Readiness is the best way of truly taking care of soldiers. -- Richard A. Kidd
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. -- Saul Bellow
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Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does. -- Sam Rayburn
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference -- Oswald Chambers
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector. -- William Greider
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. -- Edward Irving
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. -- Thomas Huxley
The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today. -- James F. Amos
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. -- Phyllis Schlafly
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. -- Eric Hoffer
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us. -- Samuel de Champlain
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. -- Simon Greenleaf
The readiness is all. -- William Shakespeare
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. -- Nigel Dennis
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. -- H. L. Mencken
Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him -- Sun Tzu
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. -- Fleur Adcock
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress. -- Lord Kelvin
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars. -- Michael Dean Crapo
That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance. -- William James
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. -- Sun Tzu
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life. -- George Bernard Shaw
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. -- William Shakespeare
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high. -- Susan Davis
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness. -- Ike Skelton
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars. -- Michael Dean Crapo
I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border. -- Harrison Salisbury
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve. -- Henry Chadwick
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. -- Chester W. Nimitz
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And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate. -- Steven Hatfill
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions. -- Jonathan Kozol
At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people. -- Maya Angelou
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe. -- Martha Beck
Happiness is the readiness to be happy. -- James Richardson
Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness. -- Mark Millar
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit. -- Antoine Rivarol
Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness. -- Seneca the Younger
Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd. -- John C. Maxwell
No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. -- Anthony de Mello
Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate. -- Bill Paxton
The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow. -- Sidney Jourard
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others. -- Norm MacDonald
A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment. -- Myles Munroe
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. -- John Selden
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others. -- David Lloyd George
People reach a point of readiness for change when they reach their own personal bottom. -- Marshall Sylver
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. -- Ernest L. Boyer
Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it. -- Eric Hoffer
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war. -- Tony Blair
We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life. -- Pope Francis
Our planet energetically has transformed, almost into an energetic womb in readiness for a very strong shift in consciousness. -- Christine McCormick Day
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The assistance you need will be provided by the universe as soon as you convert your readiness to willingness. -- Wayne Dyer
An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ. -- Henry Clay Trumbull
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit. -- Thucydides
Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you. -- Michael Beckwith
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. -- Newell Dwight Hillis
Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization. -- Hyman Rickover
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions. -- Georgy Zhukov
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. -- George Santayana
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded. -- Thomas Carlyle
The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts. -- Emma Goldman
A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. -- Nigel Dennis
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. -- Alexander Pope
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. -- Rollo May
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives. -- Brennan Manning
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
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy. -- Wendell Berry
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process. -- Eckhart Tolle
At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man." -- Marcus Aurelius
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5. -- James Heckman
All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration. -- Igor Luksic
I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came. -- Marion Milner
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note. -- Confucius
Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table. -- Leonid Brezhnev
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
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood. -- Norm MacDonald
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
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong. -- George Eliot
We are ready to deal with any President [of U.S], but of course, and I mentioned that, it depends on the readiness of the future Administration. -- Vladimir Putin
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? -- James Madison
There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle. -- Richard Schmid
I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul. -- Leonard Cohen
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister. -- Emma Goldman
I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them. -- Judy LaMarsh
Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love." -- Douglas V. Steere
The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops. -- Ibn Warraq
The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind. -- Aldo Leopold
Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike. -- Basilea Schlink
We expressed our readiness to join the US-led, international coalition against Daesh with special forces. All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase. -- Adel al-Jubeir
That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing-the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier -- Dwight David Eisenhower
I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice. -- Elizabeth Kenny
We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion. -- Eric Hoffer
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.The secret isn't that you're not being told.The secret is that you're not able to hear. -- Ram Dass
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives. -- Samuel Johnson
Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour. -- Charles Spurgeon
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.I know. An overwhelming passion for it.No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. -- Anthony de Mello

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