Readily Quotes

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. — Dean Koontz

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. — Jane Addams

Men unite against none so readily as against those whom they
see attempting to rule over them. — Xenophon

She was one of those who shape their opinions rather readily from the standpoint of those around them. — Saki

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. — Francis Bacon

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled. — Guy Gavriel Kay

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real. — Jorge Luis Borges

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way . — Henry David Thoreau

Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available. — Richard Brown

Believing in the inherent good of humankind is akin to having faith. It is to believe in something that may not be readily apparent. — Charles F. Glassman

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. — Tacitus

The property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised. — Michel De Montaigne

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it. — Virginia Woolf

One by one bright gifts from heaven
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go. — Adelaide Anne Procter

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled. — Friedrich Nietzsche

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats! — John Burroughs

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Like readily consorts with like. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. — Thomas Love Peacock

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Daily habits can anchor your thoughts and feelings just as readily as any spiritual practice or yoga class. — Jeffrey Brantley

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. — Robert Harris

I readily give but then I don't forgive easily. — Amit Abraham

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Women accept their destiny more readily than men. — Thomas Hardy

The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded — Heinrich Von Kleist

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. — Martha Gellhorn

But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. — Victor Hugo

Video just accesses international information so much more readily. — Ann Macbeth

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. — Kate Beckinsale

WHATEVER your especial need may be, you may readily find some promise in the Bible suited to it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are few things in life as precious to us as our children. Rare is the woman or the man who wouldn't readily die for his or her offspring. — Debra Webb

We believe more readily in the abstract application of God's promises than we do in their application to us personally. — Matt Chandler

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst! — Bret Harte

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big! — Sarah Jessica Parker

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans — David McCullough

What was there about the human condition that made us hold on to tragedy with such tenacity and easily forgo the happiness we could reach readily? — V.C. Andrews

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently. — Seneca The Younger

The fact that iron rusts so readily is one of the great lousy breaks of chemistry, responsible for untold billions in costs every year. — Theodore Gray

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.
Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy — Leo Tolstoy

One surefire way of getting results the results we need and want is to start taking the advice we so readily give to others. — Charles F. Glassman

Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts. — Irma S. Rombauer

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest. — Andre Gide

The gospel messages you share will be accepted more readily if your Christlike example is evident in the ongoing pattern of your posts. — David A. Bednar

There's no moment in which congregations aren't embodying values that children readily absorb. — Erika Hewitt

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. — Samuel Johnson

People readily believe what they want to believe. — Julius Caesar

What we wish, that we readily believe. — Demosthenes

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. — Robert A. Heinlein

Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it — Seneca.

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily. — Epictetus

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages. — Edwin Powell Hubble

The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing — Thomas S. Monson

Selfish - a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. — George Eliot

The nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed. — Marcel Proust

Having the right perspective is tough when you're alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see. — Clifton Anderson

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near. — Philip Yancey

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections. — Nicolas Chamfort

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy. — Peter Cundall

She hurts easily, cries readily, but loves deeply. — D.W. Cee

The English Established Church ... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. — Karl Marx

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available. — Stephen L. Carter

Even the adults were charming, traditional Barue, who readily shared kitchen stories with him over mugs of Swigny. — Suresh Guptara

The human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. — Jose Saramago

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form. — Sarah Hall

The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them. — Ken Robinson

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

But they took readily to Shakespeare, as all children do when he is not made horrible with parsing and analysing. — George Orwell

I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving.
That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. — Pablo Picasso

Well, here's the trick about money. The understanding that it is available in unlimited supply and readily replaceable changes everything. — Dan S. Kennedy

Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before. — Rodney Richards

Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available. — Cassandra Duffy

Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found — Robert Louis Stevenson

We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby. — Paul P. Enns

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. — Emile Durkheim

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them. — Daniel Goleman

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell

When a storm of devastation approaches you from all directions it readily knows your unlimited potential of fighting back. — Mumtaz Kazmi

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. — Harry Shearer

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature. — Alan Greenspan

God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.' 'What — Steven Erikson

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. — Henry David Thoreau

That tendency ... to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic. — John Galsworthy

Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly. — Ellis Peters

When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. — John Lancaster Spalding

I vulgarize my feelings by speaking of them too readily to others. — Susan Sontag

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders. — Dee Hock

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too. — Alain De Botton

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things. — Friedrich Nietzsche