Unwilling Quotes
226 quotes by 201 authors
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking…
— Michael Badnarik
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The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people…
— Anthony Bourdain
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There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make…
— James Cameron
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
— Fred Allen
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
— James Allen
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There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will…
— Kurt Hahn
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
— Anatole France
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
— Dorothy Parker
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If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
— John Stuart Mill
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The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
— Seneca the Younger
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You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
— Merle Miller
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The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those…
— John F. Kennedy
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Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing…
— Tony Robbins
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
— Seneca the Younger
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"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud…
— Samuel Johnson
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the…
— Malcolm X
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Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are…
— George Wald
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