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Willingly Quotes (page 400)

If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be "To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation. Vladimir Nabokov
It is this insistence of man upon meaning that makes him so difficult. Once he realizes that he is of no importance whatever in the vast scheme of the universe, that no possible significance can be attached to his activities, that it does not matter whether he lives or dies, he will become much more? tractable. Ayn Rand
Haruki Murakami quote: "The world's full of groundless ill will. I'll never understand..."
The world's full of groundless ill will. I'll never understand it, you'll never understand it, but it exists all the same. Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami quote: "We ourselves will never know much of perpetuity. But we can..."
We ourselves will never know much of perpetuity. But we can get a faint inkling of what it’s like. Haruki Murakami
If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation. Anais Nin
Suzanne Collins quote: "We will not just be another piece in their games"
We will not just be another piece in their games Suzanne Collins
Charles Dickens quote: "The mere consciousness of an engagement will worry an entire day"
The mere consciousness of an engagement will worry an entire day Charles Dickens
National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph over political gamesmanship. - Kelly Paul David Baldacci
On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious. Arthur Miller
If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels? Suzanne Collins
When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is... Leo Buscaglia
What happens when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy: how will you act then? Compromise is the temptation of the weak; this is the test for the strong. Salman Rushdie
C. S. Lewis quote: "Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant..."
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. C. S. Lewis
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is. Albert Schweitzer
No, he will not!" said Frodo. "I shall not ride him, if I am to be carried off to Rivendell or anywhere else, leaving my friends behind in danger."Glorfindel smiled. "I doubt very much," he said, "if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril. J. R. R. Tolkien

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