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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis

Good, True, Two

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.
Rick Warren

Live, Die, Unless

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
LaToya Jackson

Family, Plan, Adopt

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
Tony Campolo

Marriage, Legal, Gay

I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
Carlos Santana

Nothing, Grateful, Lady

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman

Speak, Until, Refuse

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
Mother Jones

Time, Men, Injustice

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.
Kristen Stewart

Family, Great, Pretty

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.
Kristen Stewart

Everyone, Open, Glad

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Job, Wanted

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
David Attenborough

History, Sense, Able

Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.
Reba McEntire

Waiting, Makes, Restless

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Work, Good, Wait

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
Harry Browne

Knowledge, Everything, May

I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.
Jessica Simpson

Wonder, Wear, Compliment

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Wanted, Knowing, Read

Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready.
Elizabeth Warren

Good, Fight, Country

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
Imran Khan

Power, Everyone, Again

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.
Sandra Bullock

I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going.
Carrie Underwood

Around, Dance, Getting

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
Martha Plimpton

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

Great, Men, Difficult

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
Katherine Heigl

Change, Work, Someone

We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Living, Cannot, Put

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.
Lena Dunham

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.
Jonathan Safran Foer

School, Wife, Feeling

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
Marian Wright Edelman

Education, Future, Fight

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
Iain Duncan Smith

Work, Government, Hard

I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'
Josh Hutcherson

Love, Next, Actually

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner

War, Down, Nation

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