Volition Quotes
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Volition Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.
— Rufus Wainwright
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
If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.
— David L. Conroy
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