Willing Quotes - Page 26

• Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Conservation, Form

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

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• I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Long, People, Long Time

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.1973, Penguin

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• I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.

  Stephen Colbert

  Cake, America, Tonight

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• It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Long, Soul, Wish

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• We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.

  H. G. Wells

  Real, Silly, Race

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.725, Delphi Classics

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• Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  Andrew Marvell

  Sports, Running, Morning

  c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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• She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing

  Lorrie Moore

  Real, Tools, Gravy

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• He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

  Truman Capote

  Admitting, Faults, Made

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.178, Vintage

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• The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

  Kate Chopin

  Past, Lessons, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.116

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• The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fighting, Long, Citizens

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• There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Pride, Caring, Gun

  "Why I Am a Conservative". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1996.

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• We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Pathways, Littering, Talent

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• My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.

  Zlata Filipović

  Anything And Everything, Events, Diaries

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• People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

  Miranda July

  Sexy, Distance, Mean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Pain, Men, Dying

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.580, Penguin

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• Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?

  Thomas Pynchon

  Government, World, Narrative

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• Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.

  Bill Bryson

  Husband, Sleep, Two

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• There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.

  Rachel Cohn

  Ready

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.39, Egmont UK

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• One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

  Graham Greene

  Talent

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• [The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cracks, Tables, Narnia

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Father, World

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• Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Stupid, Ideas

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.275, A&C Black

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• The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

  Albert Schweitzer

  God, Faith, Hope

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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• The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Hate, Real, Arrows

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• We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Believe

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