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Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties -- George Washington
Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?... -- Nick Gordon
When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold. -- Adam Mansbach
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -- Thomas Fuller
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. -- Benjamin Franklin
God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him. -- Greg Boyle
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. -- Auberon Herbert
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. -- Fred Allen
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. -- Pierre Corneille
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. -- James Allen
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. -- Plato
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? -- Rand Paul
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people. -- Lee H. Hamilton
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith. -- James Cameron
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you. -- Elizabeth Warren
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus. -- George Whitefield
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp. -- Pat Sajak
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. -- Blaise Pascal
Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us. -- Barbara Jordan
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. -- Paul Dirac
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. -- Natan Sharansky
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
When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt. -- Kevin McCarthy
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case. -- Bob Barr
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention. -- Ronda Rousey
The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you. -- Anthony Bourdain
All birth is unwilling. -- Pearl S. Buck
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind! -- Alexander Pope
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Most men are unwilling to be taught. -- Samuel Johnson
The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws. -- Francois Rabelais
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. -- Seneca the Younger
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary. -- Evan Wright
You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue. -- Mike Murdock
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year. -- Dorothy Parker
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them. -- Seneca the Younger
Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. -- John Spence
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast. -- Laozi
Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived. -- Brian Jacques
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. -- Plautus
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one -- Harold Lewis
Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations. -- Garry Kasparov
Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to. -- Kim Ki-jung
No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices. -- Napoleon Hill
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves. -- Anatole France
Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one. -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all. -- Ally Condie
The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime. -- Moshe Katsav
Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without -- Seja Majeed
I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do. -- Mike Huckabee
Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable. -- William Carlos Williams
Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without... -- Seja Majeed
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you. -- Jodi Picoult
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. -- E. M. Forster
Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands. -- Joshua Roman
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed. -- Moshe Katsav
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade -- Jeaniene Frost
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. -- Anne Rice
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes. -- Lord Chesterfield
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? -- David Foster Wallace
If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich. -- Felix Dennis
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. -- Mason Cooley
Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost. -- Richard Bach
To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness. -- Gautama Buddha
desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move -- Emily Giffin
there is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ... -- Ouida
You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are. -- Merle Miller
One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything. -- Kevin DeYoung
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. -- James Russell Lowell
A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences. -- Keith Olbermann
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. -- Heraclitus
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. -- Charles Spurgeon
Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it. -- Bill Courtney
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . . -- H. L. Mencken
Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less. -- Debbie Ford
Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love. -- R. Lee Ermey
Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him. -- Julianne Malveaux
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do. -- Byron White
If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.' -- Marcus Aurelius
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. -- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A person will complain about his problems, unwilling to receive solutions, while demanding attention trough a victimization, reflecting lack of responsibility. -- Mark Brightlife
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth. -- Leif Enger
Being #"? IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #"? RIGHT WAY. -- Shiv Khera
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. -- Dan Simmons
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. -- Luc de Clapiers
Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects. -- Arthur Keith
Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. -- Stephen A. Diamond
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong. -- Jimmy Savile
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. -- John Stuart Mill
I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us. -- Tony Abbott
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact. -- Osbert Lancaster
If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole? -- Price Pritchett
If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me. -- Mitt Romney
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. -- Carl Sagan
Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to. -- Rand Paul
The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero. -- Phil Ochs
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public. -- John B. S. Haldane
If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader. -- Lee Kuan Yew
There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable. -- Ted Nugent
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. -- St. Jerome
I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance. -- Marilyn Wallace
All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas. -- Seth Godin
We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'. -- Ted Cruz
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. -- Marcus Aurelius
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed. -- Carl Sagan

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