Willing Quotes - Page 29

• Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.

  B. Traven

  Jobs, Men, Giving

  B. Traven (1963). “The Treasure the Sierra Madre”

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• The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Just Friends, Lock And Key

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 22, 2008.

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• Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Love Is, Emotional

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time

  Meg Cabot

  Stars, Two, Wagons

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Queen of Babble Gets Hitched”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance. He would talk about flowers and moonbeams - he cringed - if it meant maintaining this delectable inner peace. "Is there a way to break your death-curse?" Ashlyn asked. So much for flowers and moon-beams.

  Gena Showalter

  Hurt, Flower, Moon

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.158, HQN Books

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• I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dream, Morning, Rap

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Tears, Tissues

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Please don’t let it be another cop. I’m outta bail money. Wait a minute…I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark) Not in my current condition. You’d have to sell Caleb or Madaug. I’m sure there’s someone willing to buy two perfectly good white boys. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Perfectly Good, Ebay

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• You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Names, Want, Bears

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• Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?" And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Book, Home, Men

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.21, Macmillan

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• the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Sacrifice, Self

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.417, A&C Black

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• I just know that I’m not willing to let anything happen to you. When Nynia died, I was so lost and cold, and I haven’t been warm since. Not until I felt your hands on me. The only way I’ve been able to cope without you is to bury what I feel, but I can’t seem to do that anymore. When I’m with you all I can do is feel and need. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Able, Way

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.324, Macmillan

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• One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Believe, Hands

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• The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in

  Meg Cabot

  Sacrifice, Order, Faces

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Teen Idol”, p.208, Pan Macmillan

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• Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Self, Order

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Defense, Sake, Reactions

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.78, Beacon Press

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• Still, small heavenly voices penetrate the heart with their gentle, convincing declarations… Most often, hope, encouragement, and direction come from a soft, piercing voice. Small voices are heard only by those who are willing to listen.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Encouragement, Heart, Voice

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

  Neil Gaiman

  Let It Go, Knows, Hard

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

  Marilyn Manson

  Want

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• We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ugly, Empty, Continents

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• My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, Risk, Should

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• Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.

  Michael Cunningham

  Moving, Reading, Thinking

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• Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

  Rachel Caine

  Selfish, Dark, Survival

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Total Eclipse”, p.103, Allison & Busby

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• Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot have it all, or want it all. In its abundance it survives our thirst. In the evening we come down to the shore to drink our fill, and sleep, while it flows through the regions of the dark. It does not hold us, except we keep returning to its rich waters thirsty. We enter, willing to die, into the commonwealth of its joy.

  Wendell Berry

  Sleep, Dark, Love Is

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.11, Counterpoint Press

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• For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

  Keith Ablow

  Hurt, Exit, Easy

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