#willed

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#declarations #desired #doubt #mere #no doubt

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#always #control #had #her #i

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#always #away #be strong #because #been

My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#around #been #better #both #daughter

My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

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The only thing that ever scared him was finding out there was something he couldn't do, so he damn well made sure there was anything he couldn't. ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#strong-willed #inspirational

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#strong-willed #strong-women #young-adult #revolution

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#strong-willed #dreams

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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