Willed Quotes

137 Willed quotes by 122 unique authors

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even… — Vincent Van Gogh
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. — Robert Genn
I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent… — Vanessa Hudgens
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in… — Joan Jett
My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So… — Marlo Thomas
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who… — Ron Rash
She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound… — Mario Puzo
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.… — Aldous Huxley
She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well. — Ann Brashares
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I… — Orson Scott Card
By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die,… — John Berendt
This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at… — Lauren Kate
He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the… — Neil Gaiman
For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled.… — Nora Roberts
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see… — John Fowles
Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a moment of silence.… — J R Ward
A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.* — William Shakespeare
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among… — Thomas Hardy
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around… — Boris Pasternak
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps… — Hermann Hesse
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of… — Hermann Hesse
The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not. — David Foster Wallace
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was… — Robin McKinley
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. — James A. Baldwin

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