Willfully Quotes

#1. Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

Abraham Lincoln

#2. I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.

Jamie Cullum

#3. When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

Tony Kushner

#4. In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

Alex Gibney

#5. If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

Seth Godin

#6. Broken Places

"It is by willfully choosing to trust in the strength God offers, to heal our broken places, that we find encouragement and a deeper relationship with our Father.

Cheryl Zelenka

#7. Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate - and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.

Ron Rash

#8. One is always willfully absurd ... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

Galen Beckett

#9. I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

John Green

#11. Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our beliefs are the sum total of our lives. It's that simple.

Patty Houser

#12. Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Ludwig Von Mises

#13. Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause deserves no consideration.

Jeff Cooper

#14. Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

Seth Klarman

#15. As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

Josemaria Escriva

#16. I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

Roxane Gay

#18. You're too sympathetic, the General said. You didn't see the danger in the major because he was fat and you took pity on him for that. Now the evidence shows that you've been willfully blind to the fact that Sonny is not only a left-wing radical but potentially a communist sleeper agent.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#19. The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

Barbara Olson

#20. I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

Alan Palomo

#21. I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

J. P. Morgan

#22. To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

Rob Lowe

#23. The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

George Bancroft

#24. To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself - always, always, always - and is at last recognized, because there's so damn little of it.

Dean Koontz

#25. A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

John Updike

#26. If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

Charles Spurgeon

#27. Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

Allan Kaprow

#28. The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Aristotle.

#29. Remember, finding a publisher is a lot like a date. You can submit willfully and keep getting rejected, but in the end, you can always self-publish yourself.

Scott Schafer

#30. In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

Daniel Guerin

#31. A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#32. They reciprocated the great and saving lie
that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things
willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#33. To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

Dalai Lama

#34. There is no young creature, my Lord, who so greatly wants, or so earnestly wishes for, the advice and assistance of her friends, as I do: I am new to the world, and unused to acting for myself;-my intentions are never willfully blameable, yet I err perpetually!

Fanny Burney

#35. A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H.G.Wells

#36. I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

Barbara Mertz

#37. Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

Mary Astell

#38. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

J.K. Rowling

#39. How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?" How could someone like him have the slightest clue what it felt like to be me? I felt almost cross with him for willfully not getting it. "Go on. Open

Jojo Moyes

#40. Contrition means finding the courage to let your heart break over sin. Willfully letting your heart break and then offering the pieces to God is a radically counter cultural idea in our society (pg. 168)

Ellen F. Davis

#41. I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#42. ... my words are love
which willfully parades in
its room, refusing to move.

Frank O'Hara

#43. I began to willfully indulge in dreams that, with the help of a bottle of wine, became completely mad and were close to being loathsome.

Georges Bataille

#44. There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.

Steven Magee

#45. any society that willfully chooses not to take care of its own doesn't deserve to be called a society at all.

Christopher DeWan

#46. Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

Taylor Branch

#47. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

Garth Greenwell

#48. It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Saint Augustine

#49. The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

Henry David Thoreau

#50. The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

William A. Dembski

#51. This is for your stubborn insistence on willfully endangering us both. Smack!

Evangeline Anderson

#52. Oh yes. You've caught me. I confess. My sole purpose in life is to gleefully, willfully, maniacally destroy all of your precious chrome babies.

Jennifer Estep

#53. Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

Loretta Lynch

#54. Having studied the toxic biological effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation, I find it amazing that women will willfully strap on two radio frequency antennas to their breasts in the form of an underwired bra. The wireless industry knows the underwired bra as a dipole antenna or doublet.

Steven Magee

#55. I was recently inside a hospital that had gone wireless and it was a forest of microwave antennas! It is sad that the medical profession is in the process of becoming expert on microwave radiation sickness due to willfully inducing it into their own staff!

Steven Magee

#56. America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

Henry Giroux

#57. A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#58. Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

John Heywood

#59. We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.

Julian Baggini

#60. Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.

Fred Phelps

#61. We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

Mark Nepo

#62. I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Spike Jonze

#63. Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

#64. Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was 'unfruitful,' a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore.

Stephen King

#65. The whole world dislikes kashays (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed) and yet, all the kashays of the world are done willfully. One doesn't like to be angry and yet he claims anger is necessary.

Dada Bhagwan

#66. Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.

Catherine Of Genoa

#67. I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

David Longstreth

#68. You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

Monica Johnson

#69. Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Terry Goodkind

#70. The only reason a man should ever pick up a sword was to protect those he loved, not to willfully take the life of someone else's beloved.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#71. The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider.

Terry Goodkind

#72. No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

Vance Havner

#73. He was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interesting to hear and see.

Kurt Vonnegut

#74. The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

Margaret Heffernan

#75. The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#76. But there are also much less dire reasons to have a manager, reasons that may have been useful to us but that we willfully ignored, or were just too stubborn or parsimonious to try.

Carrie Brownstein

#77. In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.

Evan Osnos

#78. Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Robert Graves

#79. Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

Franz Kafka

#80. No soul willfully does wrong.

Plato

#81. I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

Phyllis McGinley

#82. It is the uninformed that willfully put a cellphone next to their brains.

Steven Magee

#83. Love is not control. Love is willfully given and received. Love does not rush people who are broken. It's patient and kind and long suffering.

Love Belvin

#84. Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

King James I

#85. It will be a nuisance if he even suspects I spare the merest moment to ponder the Intruder, and he would willfully misinterpret it. I think of her only because I am concerned with their security. The thought was so lame and uncertain in his own mind, it made him growl.

K.M. Shea

#86. One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

Alexander Theroux

#87. There in the hospital Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in times of war: he was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he is interesting to hear and see.

Kurt Vonnegut

#88. Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Matthew Scully

#89. The Hell's Angels as a group are often willfully stupid, but they are not without savoir-faire, and their predilection for travelling in packs is a long way from being all showbiz. Nor is it entirely due to warps and defects in their collective personality.

Hunter S. Thompson

#90. When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

Steven Magee

#91. Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.

Cintra Wilson

#92. There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Jean De La Bruyere

#93. It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I am willing to stay in the dark.

J.D. Salinger

#94. What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

Storm Jameson

#95. Nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing ... and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.

Stephen King