I only punish willful disobedience.

“It never pleases me to punish willful disobedience, Isabel. Having to punish you for that sort of thing means I’ve failed to communicate what…

— Ella Dominguez

“once a willful child who, like many willful children, felt most secure at home, has grown into an extravagantly social and nonconforming adult, one…

— Rachel Simon

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his death-world with…

— Steven Millhauser

“I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other people's attempts to enforce structure on…

— Sara Baume

“Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.”

— Steven Magee

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else,…

— Wally Lamb

“There is a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid. - Tywin Lannister”

— George R.R. Martin

“Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.”

— Stephen Richards

Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows…

— e. e. cummings

“There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.”

— Steven Magee

“Courage is willful hope.”

— Joanna Russ

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

— David Brock

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan