Ripe Quotes

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara

Revolution, Fall, Apple

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Enemy, Succeed, Until

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

Time, Realize, Forever

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Angelina Jolie

Sex, Fact, Absolutely

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski

Lives, Ready, Taken

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller

Done, Joy, Whatever

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Ray Kroc

Growing, Green, Rot

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Ray Kroc

Growing, Green, Rotting

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
Camille Paglia

Political, Why, Moment

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.
Ron Fournier

Political, Leader, Election

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
Jon Meacham

Faith, History, Doubt

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
Jane Smiley

Art, May, Fashion

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.
Shimon Peres

Peace, Today, May

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
Bobby Darin

Age, Family, Good

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
Ray Kroc

Long, Start, Growing

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
Juliette Binoche

Age, Best, Woman

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso

Busy, Fortune, Harvest

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.
Stephen Colbert

Good, Comedy, Status

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
Kathie Lee Gifford

Religion, Almost, Actually

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
Anita Baker

Age, After, Making

I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
Andrea Riseborough

Moment, Sure, Actually

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee

Become, Around, Off

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
Chris Patten

Time, Said, Problems

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
Simon Newcomb

Time, War, Science

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
Huey Lewis

Age, Old, Dance

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
Ryan Stiles

Time, Home, Green

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
Henry Knox

Government, Liberty, Reason

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

Movies, Done, Trying

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Anna Garlin Spencer

Time, Justice, Writing

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