Unwilling Quotes
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.
I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.
A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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.
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.
The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.
Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.
The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.
The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.