“Roses are red
And ready for plucking
You're sixteen
And ready for high school.”
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
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“Are you ready for the jumpscare? …No, you're not.”
WTF Is…? series, Guise of the Wolf (January 26, 2014)
“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!"
Gilan and Halt.
The Ruins of Gorlan.”
Variant: You're an apprentice, you're not ready to think yet.
-Ranger's Apprentice
“If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?”
Svaha (2000), p. 265
Scholastic interview (1998)
Context: When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. By sally ride. So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion — because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
“I'm ready - to love you.
I'm ready - to hold you.
I'm ready - I'm ready.
Ready as I'm gonna be.”
I'm Ready
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)
“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.”
Chicago Defender (28 November 1962).
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Variant: It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.