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Willingly Quotes (page 664)

The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right. Thomas Jefferson
A virtuous man may have a choleric or a sanguine constitution, be gay or grave, unreproved, be firm till he is almost over-bearing, or weakly subsmissive, have no will or opinion of his own; but all women are to be levelled, by meekness and docility, into one character of yielding softness and gentle compliance Mary Wollstonecraft
In your worst and darkest moments remember that you have seen another kind of world. Remember that you can reach it whenever you choose to see. Remember that it will be waiting and that it's real, it's possible - it's yours. Ayn Rand
I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do. Corrie Ten Boom
There doesn't have to be any of that business with one third of the seas turning to blood or anything," said Aziraphale happily. When it came, the voice sounded slightly annoyed. "Why not?" it said. Aziraphale felt an icy pit opening under hisenthusiasm, and tried to pretend it wasn't happening. He plunged on: "Well, you can simply make sure that-" "We will win, Aziraphale." "Yes, but-" "The forces of darkness must be beaten. You seem to be under a misapprehension. The point is not to avoid... Neil Gaiman
Paulo Coelho quote: "Given the right circumstances, every human being n this earth..."
Given the right circumstances, every human being n this earth would be willing to commit evil. Paulo Coelho
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. Martin Luther King jr.
In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The morality thatgoes with this understanding is, above all, the frank recognition of yourdependence upon enemies, underlings, out-groups, and, indeed, upon allother forms of life whatsoever. Involved as you may be in the conflictsand competitive games of practical life, you will never again be able toindulge in the illusion that the "offensive other" is all in the wrong, andcould or should be wiped out. Alan Watts
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness - yes,..."
I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness - yes, goodness. I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am Charlotte Bronte
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness ,..."
Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way .. Christopher Hitchens
Neal Stephenson quote: "This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds..."
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. Neal Stephenson
All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it. Owen Wister
Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly are a kind of experiment, anticipating the point at which we shall drop out of what we will have thought for so long to be our autonomous history and back into the history of nature? W. G. Sebald

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