Whether We Want Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new…
— Michael Josephson
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Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too…
— Erica Jong
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Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to…
— Hilary Putnam
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Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I…
— Paulo Coelho
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We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make…
— Kate Elliott
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Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we…
— Howard Lyman
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Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.
— Tamora Pierce
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That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable,…
— Roxane Gay
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Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
— Mark Rippetoe
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We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.
— Leif Erikson
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The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something…
— Fred Rogers
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You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives…
— Heinrich Heine
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The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give…
— Edward Felten
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I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason…
— Morgan Parker
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...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.
— Henri Matisse
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The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
— Paulo Coelho
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The…
— B. C. Forbes
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