Unwilling Quotes - Page 6

• Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.

  Nelson Goodman

  Yield, Agreement, Justified

  Nelson Goodman (1972). “Problems and projects”

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• Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Mankind

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.57

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• The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, People, Mind

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1951.

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• The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

  Moshe Katsav

  Organization, Honor, Authority

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

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• One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Self, Improvement, Creation

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.35, 1st World Publishing

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• If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.

  Ken Buck

  Mean, President, Colorado

  "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.

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• When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, America, Missing

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• The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Identity, Patterns, Particular

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.56, Penguin

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• Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Good Night, Children, Tired

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• The blame for [the national debt]
  lies with the Congress and the President,
  with Democrats and Republicans alike,
  most all of whom have been unwilling
  to make the hard choices or
  to explain to the American people that
  there is no such thing as a free lunch.

  Warren Rudman

  Lying, Government, Lunch

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• If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

  Barack Obama

  Crush, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.today.com

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• When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

  Jehan Sadat

  Graduation, War, Men

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• I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still remember the humiliation of Sputnik last October, next year we will be so preoccupied by color television, or new-style cars, or the beginning of another national election, that we will be unwilling to pay another year's installment on our space conquest bill. For that to happen well, I'd just as soon we didn't start.

  Hugh Latimer Dryden

  Couple, Future, Color

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• You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

  Ally Condie

  Life, Courage, Moving

  Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.125, Penguin

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• Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.

  Bill Courtney

  Comfort, Problem, Zone

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• We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Heart, Answers, Praying

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• Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

  Matthew Simpson

  Consciousness, Human Nature, Adam

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Blow, Thinking, Government

  "Success Stories Lee Kuan Yew". DVD, documentary, 2002.

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• I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision...God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready...

  Oswald J. Smith

  Prayer, Men, Giving

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• When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Evil, Lines

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• If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

  Felix Dennis

  Sometimes, Failing, Rich

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.30, Penguin

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• I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

  Albert J. Nock

  People, Half, Way

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• Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Flower, Larks

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.356

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• Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.

  John Hardon

  Mean, Effort, Sloth

  John A. Hardon (1989). “Pocket Catholic Catechism”, Image

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