Readily Quotes

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

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

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.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

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.

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

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

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

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

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

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

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

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.