To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.” Bahá’u’lláh” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because what is man without his volition but a stop on a barrel-organ cylinder?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I should be allowed to be voluptuous or scrawny of my own volition, without people going on about it. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He… — William James Copy Share Image
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“''I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (...) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We're trying to win business by doing a good job for the clients, as opposed to, "We think being big and universal… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
“In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“...are you a person - with volition and maybe some stubborness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“So, how is it that you don’t have a girlfriend?” I asked boldly. Joel shrugged. “Have you ever had a girlfriend?” There… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“I knew that she couldn’t hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“التخلف يولد الارادة ... الحضارة تقول ذلك ! ----------------------------------------------------- Retardation Generates Volition ... Civilization says so” — Hesham Nebr Copy Share Image
![“I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public. That trumped any type of…” quote by Matt Bomer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4a7/matt-bomer-2221_able_i-m-so-thankful-to-have-been-born-in-the_2845290.jpg)
