Ready

Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)