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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. — Christopher Moore

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. — Yann Martel

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared. — Thucydides

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father. — Ravi Zacharias

I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition. — Sebastian Coe

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine. — Pico Iyer

She'd probably rip his nuts off and choke him with them for even suggesting it. But hey, at least then she'd be touching me of her own volition. — Eve Langlais

We are connected, but the weave is sometimes fragile. (192) — Jacqueline Novogratz

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction. — Anders Ericsson

What is a human mind? Memories. Memories are data. Character, personality, individual volition. Those are programming. — George R R Martin

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. — Robert A. Heinlein

When ever possible ... take the necessary steps forward towards peace and proclaiming truth. It's always possible. — Timothy Pina

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. — Thomas Carlyle

Scars crossed her welded wrists. — Jeffrey Eugenides

No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed. — Judith Spencer

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. — Julian Casablancas

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer. — Hirohito

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. — Rufus Wainwright

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us. — Amit Chaudhuri

This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Because what is man without his volition but a stop on a barrel-organ cylinder? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. — Vincent Louis Carrella

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition. — David Novak

If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing. — David L. Conroy

Volition ... takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness. — William James

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind. — Watchman Nee

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. — Eyvind Johnson

I have no knack for volition. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision. — Simon Wiesenthal

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg

The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few. — Dalai Lama XIV

I have a choice. That's why I'm still here. — Amy Neftzger