the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his… — Laura Story Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
