Willingly Quotes (page 552)

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• challenge
• hand
• dead

I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will. Isaac Asimov

• broken
• thoughts
• you me

Go ahead, Marlene, thought Edward. Push me around. Do with me as you will. What does it matter? I am broken. Broken. Kate DiCamillo

• saying
• government
• people

It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appeals for votes. If individuals do not know their own interests in many cases, they are free to turn to private experts for guidance. It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus. Murray Rothbard

• respect
• conscience
• loyalty

No life can be free from the storms of adversity unless that family and that home are built on foundations of morality, fidelity, and mutual respect. There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty. The warm sunlight of love will not rise out of a swamp of immorality. …Is there a valid case for virtue in our world? It is the only way to freedom from regret. The peace of conscience which flows therefrom is the only personal peace that is not... Gordon B. Hinckley

• expectation
• quickness
• them

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us? J. M. Barrie

• crazy
• time
• jealousy

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common. Roland Barthes

• true
• saying
• it is what it is

It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• him
• willfulness
• likely

You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that. Elizabeth Bowen

• physics
• know
• overly

Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born Stephen Hawking

• watch
• father
• peace

We are people of peace. We are followers of the Christ who was and is the Prince of Peace. But there are times when we must stand up for right and decency, for freedom and civilization, just as Moroni rallied his people in his day to the defense of their wives, their children, and the cause of liberty (see Alma 48:10). …We must do our duty, whatever that duty might be. Peace may be denied for a season. Some of our liberties may be curtailed. We may be inconvenienced. We may even be called on... Gordon B. Hinckley

• true
• fear
• evening

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes. Aiden Wilson Tozer

• believe
• evening
• words

If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one. William S. Burroughs

• willed
• just
• know

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready. Jodi Picoult

• leaving
• single
• hard

to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and then words, moving darkly, in the depths of your mind will break up this knot of hardness, screwed in your pocket-handkerchief. Virginia Woolf

• eating
• listens
• will

Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it. Anne Lamott