“ We try to make a virtue of the vices that we are unwilling to correct. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ”
- Richard Harkness- Copy
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“ Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do. ”
- Byron R. White- Copy
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“ Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between. ”
- Robert Blair- Copy
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“ Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, "I love you." The real trick is to get them to say, "Will you marry me?". ”
- Ilka Chase- Copy
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“ Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide. ”
- Pat Brown- Copy
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“ Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary. ”
- Richard Harkness- Copy
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“ The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Committee: a group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ”
- Richard Harkness- Copy
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“ Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. ”
- Ludwig van Beethoven- Copy
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“ Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
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“ Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. ”
- Michael Badnarik- Copy
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“ I was one of the founders of Peace Now. I was then a resident in Israel… I was then visiting professor at the Hebrew University, teaching Jewish history. And in the mind of Israel now, and to some degree even then, I'm not quite an outsider. ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
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“ Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent — unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it — we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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