“Because what is man without his volition but a stop on a barrel-organ cylinder?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.” Bahá’u’lláh” — Anonymous 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
To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. — Rufus Wainwright 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
" 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume 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
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
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you… — Mary Karr 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’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
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 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
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
I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having… — William James 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
![“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/quotes/i/4a7/matt-bomer-2221_able_i-m-so-thankful-to-have-been-born-in-the_2845290.jpg)
