Unwilling Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Ignorance, Order

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Imperfection, Weakness

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

  Karen Horney

  Women, Careers, Venture

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

  Phil Ochs

  Inspirational, Hero, Journey

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• The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

  Manny Farber

  Sleep, Men, Hollywood

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.562, Library of America

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• It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

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• I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.

  Robert F. Williams

  Order, Law, Ku Klux Klan

  "Negroes with Guns". Book by Robert Franklin Williams, 1998.

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• What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Negative, Doe, Morality

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

  St. Jerome

  Arrows, Stones, Care

  "Saint Jerome Collection [5 Books]". Book by Saint Jerome, Aeterna Press, Letter LII, 2016.

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• I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

  George Steiner

  Writing, Mean, Judging

  "Il postino". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2008.

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• If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

  Price Pritchett

  Pain, Pleasure, Holes

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• Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

  Socrates

  Past, Thinking, Track

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• No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

  Plato

  Education, Children, Men

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• Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

  R. Lee Ermey

  True Love, Doubt, Abandoned

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Agnostic, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Doors, Order, Flags

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use

  Emma Thompson

  Religious, Sex, Uganda

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• I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

  Nikola Tesla

  Jealous, Men, Law

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• Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.

  Kim Ki-jung

  Business, Successful, Sacrifice

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• I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.

  Tom Morello

  Hero, Eye, Government

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Success, Two, World

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2015). “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, p.146, Booklassic

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• I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Dream, Creativity, Thinking

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