Best Wills Thoughts
249 Wills quotes by 199 unique authors
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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
— William Shakespeare
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Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
— George Strait
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You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying…
— George Strait
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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct…
— Voltaire
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Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
— George MacDonald
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Man is what he wills himself to be.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
— Robert Jordan
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded…
— C.S. Lewis
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The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
— Leo Tolstoy
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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
— Bill Watterson
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Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds,…
— Thomas Merton
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Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength…
— Ronald Reagan
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The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets…
— Denise Levertov
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
— Jacqueline Carey
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