Willfulness Versus Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.

Max Anders

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I love all things Christmas.

Samantha Barks

#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. Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.

Jon Spaihts

#9. When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path.

Frank Herbert

#10. It's better, Benji, to have something burn brightly for a short time than to never have it at all.

T.J. Klune

#11. Willfulness, such as yours, is exactly what a girl needs to raise herself up to do something useful with her life.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#12. that there's some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen

Nicola Yoon

#13. 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

#14. Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#15. Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

Gerald May

#16. People grow bitter and cynical about life because they can't bend it to their will.

Marty Rubin

#17. Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit ...

John Geddes

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex.

Mark Tobey

#21. Less frightening, but no less disgusting, is the Iranian taste for jam made out of carrots.

Paul Theroux

#22. I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.

Tod Machover

#23. 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

#24. Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

Anthony Burgess