„It is better to live ready than to get ready!“

„I am physically, mentally and emotionally ready to enter a new phase in my life. I’m ready to grow and get better.“

—  Ralph Smart

„Having a child changes every aspect of your life — for the better, of course. The sacrifices are large, but what you get in return is even bigger than the sacrifices you make. I feel, in a sense, ready to die because you are living on in your child. Not literally, not ready to die — but you know, that sort of feeling in a profound way.“

—  Heath Ledger Australian actor 1979 - 2008

November 2007 interview remarks quoted by Susan Chenery, "Who Is That Man?" http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23097733-15803,00.html, In Touch Weekly, January 23, 2008.

„Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.“

—  E. Lockhart American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily Jenkins 1967

Zdroj: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

„I'm ready - to love you.
I'm ready - to hold you.
I'm ready - I'm ready.
Ready as I'm gonna be.“

—  Bryan Adams Canadian singer-songwriter 1959

I'm Ready
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)

„People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.“

—  Cormac McCarthy, kniha Cesta

Zdroj: The Road

„we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood“

—  William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842 - 1910

„Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.“

—  Daniel Handler, kniha Adverbs

Zdroj: Adverbs (2006), Collectively

„Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.“

—  Henry Ford, kniha My Life and Work

My Life and Work (1922)

„If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?“

—  Charles de Lint author 1951

Svaha (2000), p. 265

„Get in the fast lane, Grandma, the bingo game's ready to roll!“

—  Mike Lange Canadian sportscaster 1948

Quoted in Michael Hasch and Karen Price, Ladies and gentlemen, Lange has left the building http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/penguins/s_460087.html, Trib Live Sports (2006-06-30)

„I am not ready. But when will we ever be ready?“

—  Christopher Paolini, kniha Inheritance

Inheritance (2011)

„If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!“

—  Tim Storey motivational speaker 1960

Comeback & Beyond: How to Turn Your Setback into Your Comeback (2010)

„I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.“

—  Sarojini Naidu Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949 1879 - 1949

[Naravane, Vishwanath S., Sarojini Naidu: An Introduction to Her Life, Work and Poetry, http://books.google.com/books?id=h6v8HsRUBucC&pg=PA133, 1 January 1996, Orient Blackswan, 978-81-250-0931-3, 133–]

„We cannot put off living until we are ready.“

—  José Ortega Y Gasset Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist 1883 - 1955

Mission of the University https://archive.org/details/missionofuniver000orte [ Misión de la Universidad http://www.esi2.us.es/~fabio/mision.pdf
Kontext: Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself.

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

—  A.E. Housman English classical scholar and poet 1859 - 1936

"Introductory Lecture" delivered on October 3, 1892 at University College, London.

„We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.“

—  Raymond Carver American short story author and poet 1938 - 1988

Zdroj: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

„I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.“

—  William Faulkner, kniha As I Lay Dying

Varianta: ... the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Zdroj: As I Lay Dying

„I am finally ready for the world. I hope it’s ready for me.“

—  Tarik Gunersel Turkish actor 1953

Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)

„Roses are red
And ready for plucking
You're sixteen
And ready for high school.“

—  Kurt Vonnegut, kniha Snídaně šampiónů

Breakfast of Champions (1973)