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
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
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 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
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
... 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
“I was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn’t predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel 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
Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes… — Criss Jami 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
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
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
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
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
There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say… — Jeffrey Hollender Copy Share Image
To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel 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
“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
“Joel sat back in his chair and laughed at what seemed to be an inside joke, one in which I wanted very… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
“التخلف يولد الارادة ... الحضارة تقول ذلك ! ----------------------------------------------------- Retardation Generates Volition ... Civilization says so” — Hesham Nebr Copy Share Image
