Willful Quotes

77 quotes by 74 authors

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such… — Michelle Malkin
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful… — Vivienne Westwood
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love… — Ellen G. White
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. — Woodrow Wilson
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life,… — James Joyce
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. — Elizabeth Gilbert
And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to… — Sharon Shinn
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided… — Terry Pratchett
What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man… — Joyce Carol Oates
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." â€” Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories) — Aimee Bender
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up… — Lois McMaster Bujold
And since we donâ€™t just forget things because they donâ€™t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers… — Philip Roth
This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the… — Charles Yu
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride. — Patrick Rothfuss
One tended to lose oneâ€™s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it… — Tom Robbins
Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism… — Alain de Botton
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, itâ€™s appearance,… — W S Merwin

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