Unwilling Quotes

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

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.

On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling. Yet here we are.

Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen.

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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?

Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

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?

All birth is unwilling.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

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.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'.

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.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.

Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind.

The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.

There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.