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Willfulness Quotes (page 169)

In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows. Chuck Palahniuk
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,' said she afterwards to herself? 'There is nothing to be compared to it? Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction: I am sure it will. Jane Austen
Children play at being great and wonderful people, at the ambitions they will put away for one reason or another before they grow into ordinary men and women. Mankind as a whole had a like dream once; everybody and nobody built up the dream bit by bit, and the ancient story-tellers are there to make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels. The Fianna and their like are themselves so full of power, and they... William Butler Yeats
I will attire my Jane in satin and lace, and she shall have roses in her hair and I will cover the head I love best with a priceless veil.''And then you won't know me, sir, and I shall not be your Jane Eyre any longer, but an ape in a harlequin's jacket, -a jay in borrowed plumes. I would as soon see you, Mr. Rochester, tricked out in stage-trappings, as myself clad in a court-lady's robe; and I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't... Charlotte Bronte
With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out."Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both."Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after."Really?"Really," she says. "So don't sweat it. Chuck Palahniuk
Adlai E. Stevenson quote: "I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies..."
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them Adlai E. Stevenson
When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seemmuch smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gateyou never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest. Neil Gaiman
I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don’t like everything I know about myself, and I’ll never be satisfied, but nobody’s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me - what they will hold - but I’m open to... Lauren Bacall
Dick Cavett quote: "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially..."
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. Frederick Buechner
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But WE do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. John Millington Synge
And when you do find this letter, you knowwhat? Something extraordinary will happen. It will be like a reverse solar eclipse - the sun willstart shining down in the middle of night, imagine that! Doug Coupland
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'. C. S. Lewis
Oscar Wilde quote: "you will always love, and you will always be loved"
you will always love, and you will always be loved Oscar Wilde
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong. Michael Crichton

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