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Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard. — Iain Banks

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year. — Dorothy Parker

Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot. — Erika Johansen

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage. — Arrian

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. — John Spence

We are turning into a nation of rigid, mindless, rule-driven bureaucrats, incapable or unwilling to exercise any degree of common sense or compassion. — Joseph Befumo

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade — Jeaniene Frost

Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself. — Russell Brand

It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth. — Yoshida Kenko

for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Some men are so willing to know their future,
but unwilling to face the fear of their own death. — Toba Beta

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

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties — George Washington

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man. — Marcus Aurelius

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her. — Peter Watts

There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out. — Waqar Masood

How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal? — Charlie Courtland

His magic is powerful, intoxicating. I'm a butterfly caught in his net, unable and unwilling to escape. I'm his ... totally his. (Ana to Christian) — E.L. James

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it. — Ben Carson

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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. — Seth Godin

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary — Richard Harkness

She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. — E. M. Forster

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. — Charles Spurgeon

She slung an arm around his waist, unwilling to let go of him lest he turn into wind and vanish. — Sarah J. Maas

Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses. — Arlen Price

Because I've yet to see mankind make a mistake that it was unwilling to repeat. — Patrick W. Carr

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

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader. — Lee Kuan Yew

Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast. — Laozi

God is unwilling to do everything Himself, lest He deprive us of our free will and of that portion of glory that belongs to us. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We the unwilling, led by the unqualified, will perform the unbelievable for the ungrateful — Cathy Cash Spellman

magic does not live in the unwilling soul. — Diane Duane

The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails. — Brandon Mull

If you find yourself unwilling to share, you are cheating yourself. — Beth Johnson

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived. — Brian Jacques

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? — Mahatma Gandhi

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous. — Robert G. Ingersoll

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

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. — Sherman Alexie

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything. — Kevin DeYoung

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences. — Keith Olbermann

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind. — Ellen Swallow Richards

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public. — John B. S. Haldane

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. — Lloyd D. Newell

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness. — Gautama Buddha

Those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future. — Bernard Lewis

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

Discovery is dangerous ... but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is
doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. — Brian Herbert

Comparisons are like rigid fingers - eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment — George Meredith

Jobs are for kids learning and for adults unwilling to follow their dreams. — Ben Tolosa

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong. — Jimmy Savile

My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear. — Thomas A Kempis

I submit these assorted pieces of evidence I'm unwilling to categorize! — Lemony Snicket

Her fierce creature of a mind: sleek and sharp-clawed and utterly unwilling to be caught. — Marie Rutkoski

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do. — Byron White

All birth is unwilling. — Pearl S. Buck

Successful people are inspired people; they are unwilling to accept the status quo. — Asa Don Brown

I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away. — Lisa Daily

They stumble at the Word of God for in their hearts they are unwilling to obey it - which makes stumbling a foregone conclusion. — J.B. Phillips

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich. — Felix Dennis

Desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move — Emily Giffin

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary — Evan Wright

As if unwilling to awaken the unused echoes. At — Elizabeth Gaskell

She handed him his cup of tea with the proud air of an unwilling slave ... — Elizabeth Gaskell

Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn. — T.F. Hodge

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us? — Debbie Ford

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

There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again. — John Kramer

The traditional joke stereotype of the board is 'the unworthy appointed by the unwilling for the unnecessary'. — Bob Garratt

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves. — Anatole France

When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost. — Jeanne M. Brett

Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to. — Kim Ki-jung

A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Most men are unwilling to be taught. — Samuel Johnson

There is more in us than we know if we could be made to see it; perhaps, for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less. — Kurt Hahn

Unwilling to give-up & willing to fail. That's how you succeed. — Sachin Kumar Puli

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

For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably, — Henry Kissinger

Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre... — Assegid Habtewold

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue. — Mike Murdock

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one — Harold Lewis

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. — James Russell Lowell

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes. — Lord Chesterfield

If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires - they are merely daydreams. — Nathaniel Branden

The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation ... — Zadie Smith

Men of power are unwilling to believe anything ill of their own kind. — Robin LaFevers

My eyes filled with tears and I wept long and hard, unable, and unwilling, to stop. — Andre Gide

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. — St. Jerome

Love is not at its fullest if one who lives is unwilling to die for it, or if it cannot restore to life one who has died. — Tang Xianzu

I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil! — Ayn Rand

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws. — Francois Rabelais

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. — Anne Rice