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Willingly Quotes (page 785)

If the reader says the state of affairs which I wish to bring about is right, or is just, or is inevitable and if this must lead into further deterioration, then I will have no quarrel with it. I might even, in some circumstances, feel obliged to support him. T. S. Eliot
Bertrand Russell quote: "Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting..."
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. Bertrand Russell
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God. Ronald Reagan
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well. Florence King
John Milton quote: "This horror will grow mild, this darkness light."
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. John Milton
Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it. Glenn Beck
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not... Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh. Rebecca West
Margaret Atwood quote: "For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the..."
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive. Margaret Atwood
H. G. Wells quote: "We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear."
We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear. H. G. Wells
William Shakespeare quote: "Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to..."
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy? William Shakespeare
For our purpose, however, what the soldiers did or did not read is irrelevant. For, if soldiers did not learn to fight their battles from reading books, neither is it likely that military historians learned to write their books from watching battles. Battles are extremely confusing; and confronted with the need to make sense of something he does not understand, even the cleverest, indeed preeminently the cleverest man, realizing his need for a language and metaphor he does not possess, will... John Keegan
Ovid quote: "Anything cracked will shatter at a touch."
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch. Ovid
And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it! Charles Dickens
Today I realized that what I wrote yesterday I really wrote today: everything from December 31 I wrote on January 1, i. e. today, and what I wrote on December 30 I wrote on the 31st, i. e. yesterday. What I write today I'm really writing tomorrow, which for me will be today and yesterday, and also, in some sense, tomorrow: an invisible day. But enough of that. Roberto Bolano

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