Unwilling Quotes - Page 7

• There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.

  Ted Nugent

  Issues, People, Concern

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

  Mitt Romney

  Mistake, People, Mind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Let's say you want to do a job, and you want to be really successful. You want to rise really high in that career. But where you live, that job doesn't exist. Your town's too small. Or maybe the business is your town, but even if you reach the pinnacle there, because it's a small town, it's not nearly as high as you could go. If you're unwilling to move, well, that's all on you. That's a limitation you're placing on yourself. Now, that's fine if that's what makes you happy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Moving, Successful

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Marine, Trying

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.

  John Bolton

  Fashion, United States, Constitution

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.

  Emily Barton

  Believe, Taken, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are a series of connections between Donald Trump and his closest advisers and Russia that at least raise significant questions. Some of those questions could be answered if Donald Trump was willing to release his tax returns, but he's unwilling to do that.

  Tim Kaine

  Russia, Return, Connections

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

  Sam Pressman

  Dream, Giving Up, Real

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• Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Gratitude, Two, Ungrateful

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• "Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Believe, Ego

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.37, e-artnow

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• It's not that you're not smart anymore; it's that you're unwilling to do it. Coaches who coach know what I'm talking about. You just keep battling to help your coaches and your players, to refine your scheme, to break down your opponent, to find ways to travel and take care of your players.

  Pete Carroll

  Smart, Player, Talking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

  William S. Burroughs

  Lying, Desire, Might

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Determination, Events

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

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• I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Trying, Incapable

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.335, Routledge

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• The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.

  John Howard

  Wrestling, Reality, Self

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• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

  James Allen

  Strong, Heart, Sacrifice

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• It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.

  Richard Bach

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Operations, Protest

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.162, Tara Publishing

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• Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Democracy, Allies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Humor, Ribbons

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The hippopotamus”, Random House (UK)

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• Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).

  John McCain

  Air, Years, Space

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• The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and
  unwilling serfs

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Building Up, People

  "Resist Not Evil". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1904.

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• The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

  Heraclitus

  Wise, Names, Zeus

  "Fragments (Fragment 32)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Motivational, Dream, Achievement

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