Willing Quotes - Page 30

• Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

  Lisa Kleypas

  House, Annabelle, Wrists

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Secrets Of A Summer Night: Number 1 in series”, p.196, Hachette UK

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• Even if they were willing to let you remove your Pride from the council's collective influence—and they won't be—there's a reason the council exists. We band together because there's strength in numbers. Because in its unperverted state, the council ensures representative government and a pooling of resources and ideas that benefits everyone." "Yes, but the operative word there is unperverted, and right now, you guys are operating under the thumb of the biggest power-pervert ever to swish his tail in the U.S. He's like Hitler with fur.

  Rachel Vincent

  Pride, Government, Ideas

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.226, MIRA

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• I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Betrayal, Caring, Men

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

  Don DeLillo

  Belief, Computer, Dies

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Thinking, Land

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• Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me.

  Rachel Maddow

  Laughing, Use, Lines

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• The question then is, how much are you willing to give?" And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Giving, Response, Breaths

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.41, Delacorte Press

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• As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving Up, Self, People

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• If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

  Justina Chen

  Art, Fear, Thinking

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• Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

  William P. Young

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

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• Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he’d wanted more in their relationship than she’d been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kissing, Hands, Choices

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• But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

  Jodi Picoult

  Years, Drug, What If

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Moving, Passion, Average

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• So, what now? We’re friends?" Yeah. If friends could be in love, but not together. In sync, but out of touch. Willing to die for each other, but unable to trust.

  Rachel Vincent

  Together, Yeah, Sync

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “My Soul to Steal”, p.10, Harlequin

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• Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

  Douglas Coupland

  Suicide, Warrior, People

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• Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.

  Melvin Burgess

  Fighting, Gun, Practice

  Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.95, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.

  Michelle Moran

  Love You, Fighting, Long

  Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.662, Broadway Books

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• Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

  Erwin McManus

  Names, Giving, Pay

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• Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known. A man will say: I am cold. Or else he will say nothing, and we will see him shivering. Either way, we will know that he is cold. But what of the man who says nothing and does not shiver? Where all is intractable, here all is hermetic and evasive, one can do no more than observe. But whether one can make sense of what he observes is another matter entirely

  Paul Auster

  Men, Solitude, Matter

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• Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

  Norman Maclean

  Missing, Fantasy, Catastrophe

  Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

  Christopher Paolini

  Real, Believe, Suffering

  Christopher Paolini (2005). “Eragon”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.

  Christine Feehan

  Children, Taken, Home

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.152, Penguin

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• If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Creative, Risk, Failing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• And it's just a hunt?" Bea asked. "Just tracking the guy down, or are we going to have to do a little covering up of our own?" Had she just told me she was willing to kill someone and cover it up? She gave me a happy smile, but that glint in her eyes told me that, yes, she'd just offered to off someone.

  Devon Monk

  Eye, Guy, Covering

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• Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.” Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. In the words of John the Revelator, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and … faith [in] Jesus.”

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Children, Father

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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