Willing Quotes - Page 35

• I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate that they're left-handed.' Is that really love? Or is that saying, 'I'm willing to love you as I'd like you to be, not as you are'? Either God's love is unconditional or it's not.

  Alex Sanchez

  Hate, Love You, Mean

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• Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Father, Black And White

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• They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free. So that is what I am doing. I will step back and you will move on. I will let you go. ... Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me everywhere, like a warm and comforting glow.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Distance, Moving, Mean

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• Is everyone looking for me?" She shook her head, pulling the robe closer. Suddenly she wanted to be covered up in front of him, in front of all that familiarity and beauty and that lovely predatory smile that said he was willing to do whatever with her, to her, no matter who was waiting in the hall. “ I was hoping they„d put up flyers like they do for lost cats",he said. “Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to „Jace,‟ or „Hot Stuff.‟” “ You did not just say that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teenage, Cat, Boys

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• Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.

  John Stephens

  Sacrifice, Rivers, Might

  John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.332, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

  Alison Goodman

  Love Is, Self, Giving

  Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.281, Penguin

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• There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.

  Steig Larsson

  Believe, Rumours, Malicious

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• 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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• Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Jane Green

  Letting Go, Running, Track

  Jane Green (2006). “Jemima J.”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Running

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• I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last

  Nicholas Sparks

  Distance, People, Lasts

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Nights In Rodanthe”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Empathy, Joy

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• I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Should Have, Together

  "The Tent". Book by Margaret Atwood, 2006.

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• Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Reflection, People

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• People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Wind, People

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Passion, Race

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 12, 2013

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• People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Passion, Sacrifice, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1877, Macmillan

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• What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it?

  Ann Aguirre

  Home, Fighting, Fine

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.94, Macmillan

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• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

  David Mitchell

  Flesh, Spirit, Weak

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.183, Random House Group

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• Beautiful Hannah. If you were mine, I'd lay you on silk sheets and wrap you up in ropes of pearls, and feed you honey from a silver spoon. Of course, you wouldn't be able to make all your high-minded judgments if you were a fallen woman...but you wouldn't care. Because I would pleasure you, Hannah, every night, all night, until you forgot your own name. Until you were willing to do things that would shock you in the light of day. I would debauch you from your head down to your innocent little toes-" "Oh, I despise you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “A Wallflower Christmas: Number 5 in series”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

  Charles Duhigg

  Fighting, Natural Instinct, Embedded

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• For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Freedom, Practice, Tasks

  "The Chomsky Reader". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1987.

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• Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice" "Then it should be easy for you," Eric sys. "If you're willing ot take his place.

  Veronica Roth

  Bullying, Eric, Target

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• For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Brother, Real, Imagination

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