Willing Quotes - Page 34

• I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts. Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with feeling. 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

  Laughter, Revenge, Heart

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• He said he loved me,” she whispered. Daniel swallowed, and he had the strangest sensation, almost a premonition of what it must like to be a parent. Someday, God willing, he’d have a daughter, and that daughter would look like the woman standing in front of him, and if ever she looked at him with that bewildered expression, whispering, “He said he loved me . . .” Nothing short of murder would be an acceptable response.

  Julia Quinn

  Daughter, Expression, Parent

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• Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

  James A. Owen

  Knowing, Choices, Bears

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• Melanie still grieves for Jared," she stated. I felt my head nod without willing the action. "You grieve for him." I closed my eyes. "The dreams continue?" "Every night," I mumbled. "Tell me about then." Her voice was soft, persuasive. "I don't like to talk about them." "I know. Try. It might help." "How? How will it help to tell you that I see his face every time I close my eyes? That I wake up and cry when he's not there? That the memories are so strong I can't separate hers from mine anymore?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Strong, Memories

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• You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Order, Library

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel”, p.249, Delacorte Press

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• I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.

  Kevin Hearne

  Heart, Order, Risk

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1132, Del Rey

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• The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Believe, Truth Is, Knows

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

  Dalton Trumbo

  Men, Privilege, Saving Money

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• But if there was a protocol for how to say goodbye to your newly ex-boyfriend's brother, right after you kissed him and probably sent your ex into the arms of his willing ex-girlfriend, I didn't know what it was.

  Rachel Vincent

  Goodbye, Girlfriend, Brother

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.208, Harlequin

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• We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

  Carol Shields

  Hands, Knowing, Want

  Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin

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• Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Baseball, Jesus

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 02, 2015

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• If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Risk, Opinion

  "Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history". Book by Nathaniel Weyl (p. 400), 1950.

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• I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Risk, Live In The Present

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• I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.

  Veronica Roth

  Self, Order, Difficult

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.70, HarperCollins UK

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• So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?" I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?

  Ally Carter

  Three, World, Said

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

  Eric Liddell

  Practice, Discipleship, Knows

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• A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

  Craig Clevenger

  Sacrifice, Stories, World

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

  Cameron Dokey

  Sweet, May, Taste

  Cameron Dokey (2009). “Winter's Child”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheist, Atheism, Chance

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• We men are very simple people: if we like what we see, we’re coming over there. If we don’t want anything from you, we’re not coming over there. Period. Please highlight this part right here so you can always remind yourself the next time a man steps to you: a man always wants something. Always. And when it comes to women, that plan is always to find out two things: (1) if you’re willing to sleep with him, and (2) if you are, how much it will cost to get you to sleep with him.

  Steve Harvey

  Sleep, Simple, Men

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• There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

  Danielle Steel

  Hard Work, Enough, Wanted

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• Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Believe, Writing, World

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Dec 11, 2012

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• Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

  Jerry Bridges

  Giving, Suffering, Lord

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ”, p.107, Tyndale House

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• I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

  Veronica Roth

  Dark, Gun, Light

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.68, Harper Collins

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