Best Unwilling Lines
226 Unwilling quotes by 197 unique authors
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I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a…
— Nathan Bedford Forrest
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I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public,…
— Steve Jobs
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The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
— Evan Wright
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It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say.…
— Benjamin Hoff
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I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it.…
— Robert F. Williams
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What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
— St. Jerome
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My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must…
— John Keats
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve…
— Graham Greene
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
— Mason Cooley
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When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
— Pierre Corneille
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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods,…
— Paul Dirac
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Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record…
— Edward Hopper
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How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong?…
— Mike Huckabee
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American…
— Barbara Jordan
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be…
— Blaise Pascal
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
— Rand Paul
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
— Rand Paul
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and…
— Edward Abbey
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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city…
— Robert Frost
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Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in.…
— Leif Enger
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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at…
— Jane Austen
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