Ready Steady

Famous quotes containing the words ready and/or steady:

“still I’m ready to believe perhaps
some lives
tremble and flare up there, four blocks away ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)