“To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.” PeopleImportantFormSpiritMilitaryWillingConcrete Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.” StillsCountryFormWillingArmyIndependentOccupationIndependent Country Author:Khaled Mashal
“Just remember, loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. If there is something that still wounds you, it's because of the meaning that you have linked to it. Maybe what you need to do is to have faith and say, 'Even though I don't know why this has happened, I am willing to trust. Someday, when the time is right, I will understand.'” IfsKnowsNeedsStillsMotivationalRememberFormUniverseLossHappenedWillingDisappearWoundsSomedayHave FaithImaginaryLinked Author:Tony Robbins
“People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentFormLyingBeliefStuffAcceptingWillingRight NowConceptsAliensComing OutClosetsBelief SystemsComing Out Of The Closet Author:Gillian Anderson
“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.” PeopleHumansLongDifferentFactsFormFightingInterestPayActingAcceptingWillingTasteBehaviorLong TimeLaborUnionsAcceptedLifestyleRationalExplanationLivelihoodLabor UnionDifferent Lifestyles Author:Erik Naggum
“Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.” IdeasCountryFormDiesDyingDangerousWillingConceptsKillingAbsurdWilling To Die Author:Mick Jagger
“Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.” WorldGivingFormLearningMediaStyleWillingVictoryPerceptionGainsSlaveTherapyShoppingGiving BackBe A Slave Author:Thanissaro Bhikkhu
“Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.” DifferentStatesGovernmentAbleFormLawJusticeViewsCommonVirtueShareWillingCitizensEqualAdvantageGoverningForms Of GovernmentCommon GoodBeing Equal Book:Politics Source: Politics
“I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.” BelieveGovernmentFormPoliticsDemocracyMankindWillingAmusingForms Of Government Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it's all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that's out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad.” TryingDifferentFormMinesWillingCookingFishesMeatDietsDifferent ThingsFavouriteStrictSaladProteinTroutCooking LoveWilling To Try Author:Greg Rutherford
“I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew what they were getting in for.” MovingFormWillingPressesPublishersPublish Author:Lydia Davis
“In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.” WayTryingMeanSaidWould BeFormTermRightsWillingApproachFilmmakerTrustedThey SaidSeeming Author:Sean Penn
“Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?” MindArtFormAcceptingWillingProductsBrilliantMathematicalFormulasRejectingDerangedBrilliant Minds Author:Sydney J. Harris
“I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.” ShouldWellsMeanSaidReasonLastsFormLeftMoralWillingMonthsSlaveryBlindFollySmokingDelightfulPipeGave UpSolaceFling Author:James M. Barrie
“The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.” FormCommonWillingDespairOneself Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.” IfsKindAmericaFormPoliticalTurnsLosesHalfDemocracyWillingHigherPeriodsComfortableOrganizationAbuseMajorityMiseryDecentMinoritiesDictatorshipExploitationSuperiorityOligarchy Author:Benjamin Spock
“Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.” MindPersonsFormSpeakBlackPayWillingMessagesConsequencePopularityBoldnessFearlessnessBlack Person Author:Cornel West
“The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are. Everybody needs to be understood. And out of that comes every form of love.” NeedsFormWillingUnderstoodUniversalDetailsIntimateForms Of Love Author:Sherwin B. Nuland
“Form a small group. Five or six people, of people who think the way you do, and are willing to meet regularly, every week, and you will be surprised at what imaginative, gutsy thought and action comes out of that synergy. Takes a while, but there's something that every little group like that can do.” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesActionFormCan DoFiveGroupsWeekWillingSixImaginativeSmall GroupsThoughts And ActionsSynergy Author:Ray McGovern
“I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.” MindI CanFormAsksWatchesWillingReadyListeningCrowds Author:Bill Burr
“I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.” TryingMindArtDifferentFormStuffWillingNew StuffWilling To Try Author:St. Lucia
“America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.” IfsWayAmericaFormWillingShapesResponsibleChinaPartnersAdversariesBeing Responsible Author:Mitt Romney
“The value of money comes from the private sector in the form of price for product, services rendered, what people are willing to pay for something they want or need. That's where value happens. Government has nothing to do with that.” PeopleWantNeedsGovernmentHappensFormValuesPayWillingProductsPrivate SectorValue Of Money Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.” IfsFormNatureWillingBiggerCongressAppropriateConservationLoopsSmart GrowthPaved Roads Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire