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Willingly Quotes (page 786)

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't get it. Were you hiding behind a door on morals and ethics day?...You couldn't mother someone if they shot five gallons of estrogen into your veins. James Patterson
Louis de Bernieres quote: "We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or..."
We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. Louis de Bernieres
The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose. Tori Amos
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast. Ludwig van Beethoven
Newspapers will run a headline: 'Shark kills human.' You never see a headline from the other perspective: 'Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets he's shark food. Gary Larson
James Baldwin quote: "For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay..."
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become. James Baldwin
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never..."
Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart. Mary Oliver
Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles. Homer
Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, --it steals away the freshness of life, --it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, --it shuts our souls to our own youth, --and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Philip Levine quote: "How weightless/words are when nothing will do."
How weightless/words are when nothing will do. Philip Levine
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs. Alexander Dumas
Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister? Oswald Chambers
Alan Moore quote: "If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see..."
If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going. Alan Moore

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