Words matter. These are the best Wills Quotes from famous people such as Anne Sullivan, John Leonard, William R. Alger, Arnold J. Toynbee, Aiden Wilson Tozer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that ‘he who wills the ends wills the means,’ but he never spent much time in Washington.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.
We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
When I know what the character I’m supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that’s when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I’m just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of ’em.
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.
War of attrition, war of wills. That’s what the Stanley Cup playoffs are – more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
I’m from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I’m just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of ’em.
You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you’re going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don’t have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.
The Finals are about a test of wills.
In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you’re going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don’t have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
You have only to see what became of my father’s will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I like to make people quit. Whether it’s because I’m striking them or submitting them, I just want to make them quit. In the war of wills, that’s the win.
If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that’s okay, too.
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so – not more than that.
He has willed – He wills incessantly – that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.
Liberty plays an important role in justice, and there can be no justice without liberty, which is the power to do what one wills. But government exists first and foremost for the purpose of justice, which inclines the will to give each and all their due.
Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.
To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.
Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
When I know what the character I’m supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that’s when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.
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