Quotes
Quotes about Will
They are fools to cry up the Old Faith by dying for it. A man will best keep his faith alive by himself keeping alive
Women will ever go for the experienced man. They can oft see experience in a man's eyes
I will not make my pen servant to reason
Can you not forsee what you will feel when you are truly grown up? You will understand the disappointments then. You will see where metaphors go wrong, that the door is most tight shut when it seems most open, that we are condemned to dying more than to death. Let me tell you the manner of our dying away from each other, which is not yet death
There is no such thing as the death of anything. There is no making new, there is only renewal. The earth turns and there is no new day, only a renewal of the old. In tomorrow's bread there will be a piece of today's dough
There are things that the soul will do to the body
Gods and goddesses did not, after all, descend; they were immanent but rarely willing to emerge, they made themselves blind that they might not find a door too easily. But when they did find a door they might burn up the globe
Treat a Roman well and he will begin to think there is a catch somewhere and start brooding revolution
I will haunt your grey age, enemy!
Though our world's coming tomorrow, who knows when tomorrow will come?
The thing is to sow the ideas widely. Then when the time comes for turning them into action the world of the believer will be ready
God gives us free will - we use it or we abuse it
That free will which enables us to sin is the most glorious gift of the Heavenly Father
I went back to my novel, crumpled the sheet I had started, and forced the characters back into total servitude to my will. Slaves, sort of, with only the illusion of freedom. Like all of us.
There's a limit to what a man, or a woman, ought to be willing to undergo
A satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
When a man's father is alive, look at the bent of his will. When his father is dead, look at his conduct. If for three years [of mourning] he does not change from the way of his father, he may be called filial.
"If I love you, what is that to you?" We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself and can never know.
If you deal carelessly with bees you will injure them,and will yourself be injured. And so with men. It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
Tranquillity is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
