Unwilling Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

  Richard Bach

  Change, Stars, Finding Yourself

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• Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable - or rather unwilling - to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Light, Rose

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• If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Hands, Scientific Method

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.434, Ballantine Books

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• Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hands, Order, People

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• There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Cutting, People, Majority

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• Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

  Arthur Keith

  Government, People, Universalism

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

  Moshe Katsav

  Community, Accepting, Regimes

  "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Believe, Rights

  "Cambodian Road Trip". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 15, 2009.

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• The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

  Byron White

  Law, Issues, Long

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1986.

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• Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

  Neal Ascherson

  People, Conformity, Kind

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• A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Selfish, Names, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.

  James G. March

  People, Made, Preference

  "How Decisions Happen in Organizations". Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 6, 1991.

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• I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as
  the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these
  require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are
  just friends and brave enemies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Rights, Long

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.205, Algora Publishing

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• Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.136

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• All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

  Honore de Balzac

  Idols, Noble, Want

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• I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Talking, People, Doe

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.

  Mark Nepo

  Thinking, Two, Broken

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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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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