
Top 29 Quotes About Willfulness
#1. Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.
Anthony Burgess
#2. If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
#3. Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what "is written" are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it.
Finis Jennings Dake
#4. No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.
Max Anders
#5. Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.
Zicheng Hong
#6. A pastor really needs to be broken before God every day, or he will break up the church of God with his willfulness or let it slip into spiritual death through his sloth.
C. John Miller
#7. To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.
Robert Graves
#8. Willfulness, such as yours, is exactly what a girl needs to raise herself up to do something useful with her life.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
#9. that there's some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen
Nicola Yoon
#10. Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions.
Parker J. Palmer
#11. Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
Gerald May
#12. Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.
Paul Graham
#13. She is beautiful, soft hair nearly midnight in color, large eyes nearly as dark, and ivory skin like the petals of the lily, and she wore a fragrance of jasmine. But 'tis her willfulness that I enjoyed the most. And her resourcefulness.
Terry Spear
#14. I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
Tony Goldwyn
#15. I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
Thomas Sydenham
#16. I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.
Cheryl Cole
#17. You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.
Arthur Godfrey
#18. People are afraid of anybody who is different: It makes them worry everyone else is different too, and just pretending to be all the same. James
Cassandra Clare
#19. Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and in the affairs of other nations cannot serve the best interests of America.
Ron Paul
#20. Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#21. If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
Sena Jeter Naslund
#22. Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.
Dorie Greenspan
#23. People grow bitter and cynical about life because they can't bend it to their will.
Marty Rubin
#24. Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit ...
John Geddes
#25. The more you hide the truth, the quicker it finds you - Max, The Prince of Midst
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#26. I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike - injecting a little love?' He snorted. 'Through violence, of course, like all religious reformers.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#27. In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
Tim Rice
#28. His body had never been found. How could they not have secretly hoped he might come home, no matter how impossible they knew it was?
Scott Cawthon
#29. Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
Ed Rendell
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