Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p. 207
No matter how hard you work for your money, there's always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price.
I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut repetitions and hill repeats that buckly your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.
Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.
I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.
If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.
Compatible comes from the Latin "compati", meaning "to suffer with". If you are not willing to suffer with someone until death do you part, then you are not compatible.
There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it'. . . but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.
The possibilities of success are limitless, as long as you're willing to put the work in.
