The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone’s fantasies.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger

In the silence between lines, emotions speak the loudest; that’s where the real performance lies.

The house of delusions is cheap to build, but draughty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.

I really feel that from my heart that, no matter the number of best stories may exist in this world or on this very planet earth, I find only one story to be the real one, and that is the very story of escape.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace

I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference

Watching all the football over the weekend – and having to wait until Monday night to play – gets you ready, gets you firing.

In a game, you never know what chance you’re going to get, so I try and cover all bases and make sure I’m ready for that chance when it comes.

Oh, I’m ready. Are you ready? It doesn’t matter if you’re ready!!!

Watching people toss all caution to the wind, who are ready to put their lives on the line for a dream, is something that is accessible.

If ever there was a time for a PM ready and able to do the job from day one, this is it

I have always enjoyed keeping. I used to keep earlier for my state and later didn’t have much chance to keep. But I keep myself ready if ever anyone wants me to keep.

I once saw ten minutes of The Big Breakfast and it was quite enough to convince me that television in the morning was like drinking in the morning: only real addicts could possibly do it without throwing up

Trojan is giving away Magnum large condoms (do you think they were named after a large wooden animal inside which thousands of little men were hiding, ready to jump out and ruin your life?

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Steve walks warily down the street

With his brim pulled way down low

Ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet

Machine guns ready to go

Is this the real life?

I don’t talk to everybody, so they don’t really know the real me.

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world

I don’t think that anybody has ever seen the real Frank Zappa because being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It’s two steps removed from the Inquisition

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer

Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

I had constant communication with the Red Sox, and they were awesome all the way through. It became clear I wasn’t going to be ready to start the season, so it didn’t make sense to hold that roster spot. I had nothing but great support from the Red Sox.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the ‘fig tree’ put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was ‘at the door,’ ready to return.

Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him – a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib… The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.

We too fresh Got to blame in on Jesus Hashtag blessed, they ain’t ready for me

I’m ready to lose my life if that’s what Portugal needs to win. I’ll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

Real champions fight through adversity.

I stay ready so I don’t have to get ready.

I don’t feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don’t feel any emotions at all.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don’t stop.

The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

We make generals today on the basis of their ability to write a damned letter. Those kinds of men can’t get us ready for war.

I’m here and I’m ready. They’re not. Bring it.

What they’re not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

Bad company does a man real harm, for, as the old proverb has it, if you lie down with dogs you will get up with fleas.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

This is how grace works; it enters the soul, penetrates the heart, saturates the conscience, abides in the memory, affects the affections, gives understanding to the understanding, and imparts real life to the heart, which is the seat of life.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.

You are in every line I have ever read.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: “Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready.

There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, there’s a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don’t they?

Only the real can relate.

I’m ready to be with this man. Forever. That’s why I’m getting married because I want it to be forever

While I do not think it was so intended, I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you’re not ready for judgment.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman are exact.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going.

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on

Luck is just being prepared at all times, so when the door opens, you’re ready

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already

I have a lot to say that could probably help people that I do want to share, but I have a lot that I still need to process myself and will probably never be ready to talk about

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.