Willful Quotes

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The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. — George MacDonald Fraser
You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want. — Ashley Judd
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and… — David Bentley Hart
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The… — Noam Chomsky
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is… — Ken Schoolland
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and… — Richard Rolle
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in… — Eugen Herrigel
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with… — Oscar Wilde
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is… — Esther Perel
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan… — John Cornyn
...when you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless... — Ani DiFranco
It disturbs me mostly...is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when all the record… — Luther L. Bohanon
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy… — Sean O'Casey
Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of… — Hannah Arendt
Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led. — Samuel Daniel
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently… — Anna Quindlen
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national… — Theodore Roosevelt
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the… — Sufjan Stevens

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