Willfully Quotes

62 quotes by 60 authors

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. — Robert Graves
I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to… — William Shakespeare
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. — Michel de Montaigne
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and… — Phyllis McGinley
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change… — Reince Priebus
I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to… — Julian Baggini
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed. — Allan Kaprow
One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it. — Alexander Theroux
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. — Jean de la Bruyere
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to… — William A. Dembski
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him.… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much… — H.G. Wells
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out… — Margaret Heffernan
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung — Abraham Lincoln
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own… — Marisha Pessl
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it… — Libba Bray

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