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A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills.
— Steven Erikson
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
— Garry Wills
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Focus on your relationship with God, make doing His wills your priority and together with Him you will be the head and not the tail
— Sunday Adelaja
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
— Saint Augustine
If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A will can save one's family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).
— Henrietta Newton Martin
Our battle of wills would never be complete. But there was no battle worth fighting if it would tear us apart.
— Robert P. Rowe
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
— Eliphas Levi
He who wills the end, wills the means also, and the means must involve some risks, and even some losses.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.
— Pope John Paul I
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
— William Shakespeare
This time, if God wills it, we shall replace him. A man bitten by a snake once does not let the snake live a second time.
— Bernard Cornwell
According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.
— Stanley J. Grenz
Love is a flame to burn out human wills,
Love is a flame to set the will on fire,
Love is a flame to cheat men into mire. — John Masefield
Love is a flame to set the will on fire,
Love is a flame to cheat men into mire. — John Masefield
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
— Hermann Hesse
Okay, everyone, now inhale ... and then dehale!
— Maury Wills
When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
— Donald Wills Douglas
The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams
If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.
— Francine Rivers
Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.
— Maury Wills
Can't you feel this ? Don't walk away ... ", she wills him silently.
"Please don't walk away from me ... — Jojo Moyes
"Please don't walk away from me ... — Jojo Moyes
I met his eyes because I could not refuse them ... they were the color of a storm clashing with a setting sun.
— Cherie Priest
The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.
— Ravi Zacharias
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
— Ann Brashares
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.
— Anne Sullivan
I would like you to have it, Mr. Wells" he said, presenting him with the basket,"to remind you that everything is a question of wills
— Felix J. Palma
If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell
— Freeman Wills Croft
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
— Garry Wills
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
— C.S. Lewis
The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.
— Garry Wills
I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
— Helen Wills Moody
A man never, in any instance, wills any thing contrary to his desires, or desires any thing contrary to his Will.
— Jonathan Edwards
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly. He escapes necessity because he wills what necessity is going to force on him.
— Seneca.
There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.
— Helen Wills
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
— B.C. Forbes
He who wills to reject nothing, wills the destruction of will; for will is not only the choice of something, but the rejection of almost everything.
— G.K. Chesterton
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
— Bill Watterson
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
— John Owen
I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
— Garry Wills
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
— William Shakespeare
Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
— Jacqueline Carey
The Force is with me, and I am one with the Force," Chirrut told Althin. "And I fear nothing, for all is as the Force wills it.
— Greg Rucka
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
— Marcus Aurelius
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.
— William John Wills
Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive.
— Tahir Shah
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
— William John Wills
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
— Friedrich Schiller
God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.
— Victor Hugo
Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,
Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
She felt like a god. She dreamed of people who could fight back. Of wills strong enough to resist her.
— V.E Schwab
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.
— Wayne Rogers
God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People
— John Calvin
Therefore the sage, in the exercise of his government, empties their minds, fills their bellies, weakens their wills, and strengthens their bones.
— Lao-Tzu
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
— William S. Burroughs
Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
— Ramana Maharshi
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become.- Rand Al'Thor
— Robert Jordan
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.
— George MacDonald
Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any?
— Helen Wills
Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.
— Thomas John Barnardo
Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.
— Garry Wills
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.
— Richard J. Needham
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us
To will what God wills brings peace. — Amy Carmichael
To will what God wills brings peace. — Amy Carmichael
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.
— Elliott Abrams
Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit ...
— John Geddes
Don't pray for materialstic things. Pray for internal peace what God wills for you.
— Kishore Bansal
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
— John Piper
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer
And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
— John Leonard
Flounder, flounder, in the sea, Come, I pray thee, here to me; For my wife, good Ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will.
— HarperPerennial Classics
The soul is not moved to abandon higher things and love inferior things unless it wills to do so.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Character teaches above our wills.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God's.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
— Peter Kreeft
There'll be water if God wills it,
— Stephen King
What did people do before they could go online and find answers to secret problems? Oh right, they killed themselves
— Davida Wills Hurwin
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
— Swami Vivekananda
I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.
— Johnny Gimble
Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
— Edward Young
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
— Helen Wills Moody
If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.
— Helen Wills
Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
— William John Wills
Verily, Allah lets [a person] enjoy a blessing for as long as He wills. But when He is no longer thanked for it, He turns it into a punishment.
— Al-Hasan Al-Basri
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
— Ivan Turgenev
looking for fights - encouraging and even creating controversy thinking that God wills it - is pathological.
— Peter Enns
Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities.
— Luis Vaz De Camoes