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Willingly Quotes (page 611)

Octavio Paz quote: "My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one..."
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped. Octavio Paz
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. Friedrich Nietzsche
Jane Austen quote: "Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well."
Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well. Jane Austen
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "A man who does not have something for which he is willing to..."
A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live. Martin Luther King jr.
A successful college president once complained to me, I'm so busy that I'm going to have to get a helicopter! Well, I answered, you'll be ahead so long as you're the only president who has one. But don't get it. Everyone will expect more out of you. Alan Watts
Reiko set the ball on the ground and patted my knee. "Look," she said, "I'm not telling you to stop sleeping with girls. If you're O.K. with that, then it's OK. It's your life after all, it's something _you_ have to decide. All I'm saying is that you shouldn't use yourself up in some unnatural form. Do you see what I'm getting at? It would be such a waste. The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're... Haruki Murakami
Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. Terry Prachett
The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks. George Foreman
Louise Bogan quote: "Tea instead of gin will warm the heart."
Tea instead of gin will warm the heart. Louise Bogan
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. Frederick Buechner
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains. Henry David Thoreau
Ruth Bernhard quote: "If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't..."
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything. Ruth Bernhard
Post-adolescent Expert SyndromeThe tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your... Doug Coupland
Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child. Charles Spurgeon
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache! Alexander Dumas

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