readiness quotes

Christopher Morley: 

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Henri Bergson: 

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henry David Thoreau: 

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Katherine Mansfield: 

E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.

Norwegian Proverb: 

It's better to feed one cat than many mice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes: 

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Victor Hugo: 

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Willa Cather: 

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.