#unwilling

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ↗

— Fred Allen

#committee #group #unnecessary #unprepared #unwilling

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#angry #debate #democrats #even #even worse

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#buyers #due #earn #exchange #goods

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#cling #dangerous #himself #illness #like

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#ignorant #learn #much #shame #unwilling

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#american interests #arm #beyond #could #english-speaking

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#advanced age #age #even #fair #few

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. ↗

— William Feather

#back #cannot #done #ninety-nine #nothing

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. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#church #getting #i #me #philosophical

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#hamas #honor #obligations #organization #palestinian