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
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
I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens. — Stephen Karam 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
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
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
“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
Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly… — Judy Chu Copy Share Image
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative… — Daniel D. Palmer 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
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
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle 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
“The thirst we shared for one another made it clear that the distraction would only come from deprivation. Charlotte was always on… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
“«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
“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
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
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
... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I pulled my chair up to the table and Alex sat down, following suit, unable to guard a smile from breaking onto… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is… — Ramesh S Balsekar Copy Share Image
I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
