#ripe

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#concealed #enemy #enterprise #execution #likely

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now. ↗

— Method Man

#def #floating #jam #now #offices

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#believe #children #every #firmly #gay

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#belief #doubt #faith #history #inquiry

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. ↗

— Henry Miller

#critic #done #drop #fruits #general

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. ↗

— Henry Miller

#america #been #before #chance #fruit

Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night. ↗

— Jim Mitchell

#fans #friday #friday night #just #may

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#any #civil #civil war #development #direction

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#few #nothing #ripeness #says #spirit

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#battle #brightest #face #far #fought