Quotes About Will

Mots exagérés pour dire qu'il est des réclusions mineures où l'on passe finalement un temps très long avant de s'en libérer. Car c'est bien un acte de volonté subit qui décide du terme et l'on se demande pourquoi on ne s'en est pas délivré plus tôt.

Quando l'amore manca la volontà non basta.

Communism made through the will of a government instead of through the direct and voluntary work of groups of workers does not really appeal to me. If it was possible, it would be the most suffocating tyranny to which human society has ever been subjected.

La libertà che vogliamo noi non è il diritto astratto di fare il proprio volere, ma il potere di farlo; quindi suppone in ciascuno i mezzi di poter vivere ed agire senza sottoporsi alla volontà altrui.

Because to respect one's own existence, and the existence of others, is in tune with the great universal will, these positive words attracted a flow of shining energy from all over the universe.

The wrecked visage I was forced to carry like an unwanted warning to others was to her a known thing, a familiar mask. She seemed to see beneath it something of her own suffering and recovery—the acceptance of a life-changing wound, the will to go on.

Memory and time, both immaterial, are rivers with no banks and constantly merging. Both escape our will, though we depend on them. Measured but measured by whom or by what? The one is inside, the other, outside or so it seems, but is that true? Time seems also buried deep in us but where? Memory is right here, in the head, but it can exit, abandon that head, leave it behind, disappear. Memory, a sanctuary of infinite patience.

Resurrection does not have to do exclusively with what happens after we are buried or cremated. It does have to do with that, but first of all it has to do with the way we live right now. But as Karl Barth, quoting Nietzsche, pithily reminds us: "Only where graves are is there resurrection." We practice our death by giving up our will to live on our own terms. Only in that relinquishment or renunciation are we able to practice resurrection.

Sin destroys our capacity to live. It weakens our vitality. ... It incapacitates us from living out a healthy love and a vigorous peace. We need deliverance from it. God provides deliverance from it, decade after decade, generation after generation, 'according to the will of our God and Father.

Certainly you may quit if you wish. You may say no to God. It's a free faith. You may choose the crooked way. He will not keep you against your will. But it is not the kind of thing you fall into by chance or slip into by ignorance. Defection requires a deliberate, sustained and determined act of rejection.

are still men, and not keyboards of pianos over which the hands of Nature may play at their own sweet will." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letters from the Underworld

Freiheit ist kein abstrakter Wert, sondern eine institutionalisierte Praxis, die Kategorien wie den Willen, die Wahl, das Begehren und die Gefühle prägt.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.

For Christians, Advent reminds us why we need Christmas in the first place. It relies not only the grace of God but also the assent of Mary to the divine will.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.

We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.

My coach in college always told me, 'You don't go out there to win lackadaisical, you don't go out there to win by one point, you don't go out there to coast through - you go out to dominate. You impose your will on a man.' And he was my fight coach for a little bit, too, and I did the same thing.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.