Wilfful Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we are so busy living our fears that we forgot to live our dreams — Steven Aitchison

In treating people as less important than things, work becomes both demoralised and demoralising and we become blind to the moral content of our decisions ... Money and wilfful blindness make us act in ways incompatible wiht what believe our ethics to be, and often even with our own self-interest ... the problem with money isn't fundamentally about greed, although it can be comforting to think so. The problem with money is that we live in societies in which mutual support and co-operation is essential, but money erodes the relationships we need to lead productive, fulfilling and genuinely happy lives. When money becomes the dominant behavior, it doesn't cooperate with, or amplify, our relationships; it disengages us from them. — Margaret Heffernan

She left the porch pelting her back with unasked questions. They hoped the answers were cruel and strange. — Zora Neale Hurston

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her. — Carl Sandburg

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. — Richard Stallman

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. — Ahmet Zappa

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize. — Newt Gingrich

The strangest thing. I came to the end of other people so quickly. Each new person was like a glass of water, and at the beginning I was parched, but then each glass tasted a little worse, the water was grittier, and by the end even the first sip was enough to make me gag, you know? — Arthur Phillips

The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan. — John Tesh

Truly, I've learned more theology living in poor neighborhoods than in classrooms. At times I wonder if the questions of traditional theology have any meaning for the poor. And "the poor" here mean eighty percent of the population! (Ivone Gebara, p. 209) — Mev Puleo

Then go get dressed for your Master,"Danny said with a slow,dark smile."The snake and Eve worked together,you and I will too. We'll make sure our Adam enjoys Eden before he leaves. We'll give himstrawberry so sweet it will sustain him through a whole, miserable lifetime of bland vanilla. — Kele Moon

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what. — Anne Roiphe

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank. — Ethel Merman

The passengers slid out as if from a torn package. — Markus Zusak

We're all born depraved, Mrs. Grew. We all have bad blood. Thus, we all have need of the cleansing blood of the Savior. — Jody Hedlund