Willing Quotes - Page 33

• Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mean, Commitment, Safe Haven

  "Safe Haven". Book by Nicholas Sparks, July 2011.

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• When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Play, Often Is, Giving

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• A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Order, Trying, Target

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• I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.

  Rene Descartes

  Life, Thinking, Perception

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• she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Book, Half, Faces

  Alan Hollinghurst (2011). “The Stranger's Child”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

  Howard Tayler

  Winning, Shells, Mercenary

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• I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.

  Anais Nin

  Crush, Hurt, June

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• Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

  John Green

  Night, Waiting, Want

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.29, Penguin

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• I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Long, People, Waiting

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• willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Causes, Should

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

  Paullina Simons

  Pay, Asks

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• Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe ? Another act of willing?

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Men, Light

  "Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God".

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• True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

  John Ortberg

  Love Is, True Love Is, Admonish

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• Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?

  Erich von Däniken

  Jesus, Art, Stars

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• The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Years, Common Humanity

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.

  Ann Brashares

  Fun, Adventure, Romance

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.22, Random House

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• A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Fun, Drama, Love You

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, People, Fluffy

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• Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Lust, Needs

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Tired, Back Love

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• I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Race, People

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• ...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

  B. F. Skinner

  Ignorance, Knowing, Sake

  B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Teaching, Believe

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• You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Hurt, Thinking, Ifs

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• The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Love Is, Giving

  Alice Hoffman (2012). “Green Heart”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

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