The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to. ' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.
It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.
In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give. " "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When a so-called expert tells them the object must have been the moon or a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown.
It would not be going too far to assert that. . . conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is. . . unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. . . . This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.
If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act. . . when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in their programming. . . the government stands ready to step in.
I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.