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We've been ripe for this to happen. We've gotten away from what we are good at.

Tom Pecora

The metabolism of the oil industry picks up pretty smartly when oil gets above $40 a barrel. It's fair to say there are a lot of bottlenecks in the oil and gas industry, so in many ways it's ripe for investment.

James Gelly

If the shares drop to 7 euros the company could be ripe for a takeover, and that is probably [for] the best.

Thijs Berkelder

The time is ripe for decision. For the warring factions to consider the stark reality of U.N. withdrawal.

Michael Portillo

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Ray Kroc

There could have been some background to the rumor. And if not, Burma right now is at a point where it is probably ripe for some kind of change.

Josef Silverstein

The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.

Donald H. Mcgannon

He did away with this fiction of the European interest being the same as the German interest. You can talk about national interest in a much more relaxed way today. The time was ripe for this and he acknowledged it. ... Schröder and Joschka Fischer, his Green foreign minister, deserve credit for giving Germany a more 'normal' foreign policy.

Charles Grant

My grandfather died in 1952. I never did meet him, but I did meet my grandmother and my aunts, who lived to a ripe old age.

Trudi Renwick

The Asian community prefers the hard, green fruit. If you grow for the ripe market only, you're missing out on the Asian market.

Michael Yang

The market is very ripe for correction by any standard.

Harvey Eisen

I've finally bid goodbye to the Nations Cup because I think the time is ripe for me to do so.

Peter Ndlovu

The global marketplace is ripe for African countries to fill an important need, become an important player in the world energy market, and reap the deserved profits from these services.

Rodney Ellis

These numbers suggest an electorate ripe for an 'it's-time-for-change' argument. They don't like the way things are going, and they are blaming the people in charge.

Stuart Rothenberg

I started the tradition of sidewalk sales at the ripe old age of 16.

Shirley Leinwand

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Thomas Willis

Ripe for the picking.

Mike Vanderjagt

This area is ripe for some urban landscape of mixed use.

Paul Gagnon

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

Lea Delaria

My sense is that 'business as usual' in Chicago politics is ripe for investigation.

Bernard Harcourt

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the ? what would you say ? plucking?

Angelina Jolie

These boxes have been ripe to run managed services for many years. And we want to see more partners do that.

Craig Carpenter

The time is not ripe. But we do not rule out the possibility in the future.

Xiao Wunan

I felt if there was a time for the Colts to be ripe for the picking, it was this game, and I said it before the game. It was almost a month since they played a meaningful game with all their starters, and you risk losing intensity going into the playoffs.

Bob Scucci

Although the results are positive for the stock market, the BUX is ripe for a downward correction in view of the strong rally of recent weeks.

Gyorgy Barcza

Ingres will be a disruptive force in the database market. The economics of enterprise software are ripe for change and Ingres delivers a credible alternative to customers wanting a higher return on their database investment.

Tom Berquist

The extensive water damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created conditions that are ripe for mold growth in homes and businesses, ... We're recommending that property owners in hurricane-affected areas take a three-phase approach to remove mold and prevent its return.

Troy Anderson

I don't think an appeal has any merit. I'm not even sure that it's ripe, at this point. But we'll see what they have to say before I respond further.

David Cocke

It's not a ripe case for a judicial determination because there's no law on the books and it hasn't affected any particular individual yet.

Richard Kaplan

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

Rep Susan Bucher

I just feel there are moments in one's life when you have to stand up and be counted, and for me, this is one of those moments. I believe democracy to be good for Hong Kong and in good time, when the time is ripe, it would also be good for my country.

Anson Chan

Eight months have passed since these events and no trial date has been set on this matter. The time is ripe for this court to set this matter for trial.

John Clune

For a hundred years, we've thought that color vision was for finding the right fruit to eat when it was ripe.

Mark Changizi

The social conditions were ripe; it was in the context of the '60s. It was a time when there seemed to be a consensus on the idea that the federal government could use its vast financial resources to advance the common good.

Theodore Steinberg

Things happen naturally if conditions are ripe.

Qi Xiaofei

This state is ripe for picking.

Wayne Lewis

There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.

Tish Grier

He's flushed with drink. And if the weather keeps up like this, by the end of the round he will resemble a ripe tomato.

Terry Wogan

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Che Guevara

There's no evidence that this county is ripe with rabid, roving, biting rabbits.

Lex Mccorvey

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

Ray Kroc

The time may now be ripe for controls on individuals to be dismantled.

Razia Khan

Everyone here should live to be a ripe old age and be healthy -- and keep coming to rehab because they need the money.

Harold Wefer

If they're looking at fruit, walk over, grab a peach, feel it a little bit, and say, 'I don't know how to tell which one's ripe . . .'.

David Wygant

Entrust is one of the companies today that has a very specialized solution and has yet to broaden its portfolio. It's ripe for acquisition.

David Hilal

The environment is ripe for capital expenditure recovery. The Korean economic recovery is broadening out.

Robert Subbaraman

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Torquato Tasso

There's going to be a scramble in the next couple of months to pick up some of the smaller mills, especially in North America. Wheeling-Pitt is ripe for a takeover or buyout.

Mary O'connor

When the fruit is ripe, and I go pick it, that's when I make it.

Brian Long

Dispersed work groups have increased by 600 percent and executives attend an average of 60 meetings per month -- the market is ripe for video-conferencing.

Wendy Wong

This is a historic move because it could lead other Muslim, Arab countries to understand that this is the right time to do this and to move their ties with us from darkness to light, ... After the Gaza pullout, the time is ripe also in the eyes of the public and it is also easier at the moment to do this than it was in the past.

Silvan Shalom

Their Thursday night supremacy was ripe for the taking.

Shari Anne Brill

It hurts real bad. The worst part is we shouldn't have lost. We had them. They were ripe. The hardest part is losing a game you shouldn't have lost.

Derek Raivio