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Willingly Quotes (page 688)

Walt Whitman quote: "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every..."
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Walt Whitman
How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize upon and readers expect? Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish? Where are the suburban infidelities, the promiscuities, the convulsive divorces, the alcohol, the drugs, the lost weekends? Where are the hatreds, the political ambitions, the lust for power? Where are speed, noise, ugliness, everything that makes us who we are... Wallace Stegner
I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sun Tzu quote: "Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they..."
Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley. Sun Tzu
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another’s lives for the sake of personal gain. Leo Tolstoy
George Bernard Shaw quote: "The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will..."
The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing. Lavinia: Then why kill me? George Bernard Shaw
But if you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A Dutch parent has a decidedly hairier story to relate, telling his children, 'Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared. David Sedaris
Louisa May Alcott quote: "She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often..."
She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable. Louisa May Alcott
It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you. Paulo Coelho
Warning to the despised.? If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death to decorum in society with others: otherwise you will betray to them that you have sunk in your own estimation too. When a man is cynical in society it is a sign that he treats himself like a dog when he is alone. Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist. Orson Scott Card
Jonathan Swift quote: "As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous..."
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Jonathan Swift
And if there’s no trouble, you’ll make it,’ offered Will Scott, his eyes bright, his cheeks red. ‘No. At the moment,’ affirmed Lymond grimly, ‘I am having truck with nothing less than total calamity. Dorothy Dunnett
But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. Mahatma Gandhi

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