Velleity Quotes

#1. We know what boredom is: it is a dull
Impatience or a fierce velleity,
A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude,
To make or do. In the strict sense, of course,
We invent nothing, merely bearing witness
To what each morning brings again to light

Richard Wilbur

#2. Velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action.

Bill Bryson

#3. This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Frederick Lenz

#4. We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.

Morning Star

#5. Auburn, catching up with his homies.

Stephen King

#6. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer.

Sharon E. Rainey

#8. Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#9. General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.

Harlow Curtice

#10. I loved you all over again

Maria Semple

#11. Just because the sexes are equal doesn't mean that sex is.

Daria Snadowsky

#12. If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

#13. She gave me a puzzle in a box. She put the pieces together patiently, one by one, and completed the picture of me.

Qiu Miaojin

#14. But there was little heart to our lust,
only the confusion of not knowing
how long we'd have in our bodies.

Joseph Bathanti

#15. They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust