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Willingly Quotes (page 567)

C.-C.: My dear Arnold, we all hope that you have before you a distinguished political career. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ARNOLD: But supposing it doesn't come off? Women are incalculable. C.-C.: Nonsense! Men are romantic. A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self-indulgence. ARNOLD: I never know whether you're a humorist or a cynic,... W. Somerset Maugham
Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. 'You will be mine,' I commanded. David Sedaris
Marianne Williamson quote: "People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak..."
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs. Marianne Williamson
If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time. Charles R. Swindoll
You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes I think you're a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer your question? I love you better. I always have. John Steinbeck
Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast. To pierce another. George Eliot
He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart. Mitch Albom
To accumulate love means luck, to accumulate hatred means a calamity. Whoever does not recognize the door to problems will one day leave it open, letting tragedy in. Paulo Coelho
Henry David Thoreau quote: "This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of..."
This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will. Henry David Thoreau
Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both. George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin quote: "Men of honor will do things for their children that they would..."
Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves. George R. R. Martin
Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel, underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and will always circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anatole France quote: "We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn..."
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. Anatole France
How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood. Louise Erdrich
George R. R. Martin quote: "Have you noticed that the rain stopped the instant I had a..."
Have you noticed that the rain stopped the instant I had a roof above me? It will start again now that I'm back out. George R. R. Martin

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