Famous quotes containing the word ready:
“But that two-handed engine at the door
Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more.
Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is passd”
—John Milton (16081674)
“I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her, but she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
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