Quotes about Wills

When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king. Votes: 3

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was. Votes: 3

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. Votes: 3

Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are. Votes: 3

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies. Votes: 3

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it. Votes: 3

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. Votes: 3

Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base. Votes: 3

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences. Votes: 3

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg. Votes: 3

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. Votes: 3

There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills. Votes: 3

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration. Votes: 3

Character teaches above our wills. Votes: 0

Chess is a test of wills. Votes: 0

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum. Votes: 0

Our memories are independent of our wills. Votes: 0

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom. Votes: 0

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills Votes: 0

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine. Votes: 0

Our wills and fates do so contrary run. Votes: 0

God wills, man dreams, the work is born. Votes: 0

The Finals are about a test of wills. Votes: 0

Hell is full of good intentions and wills. Votes: 0

There will be water if God wills it. Votes: 0

Man is what he wills himself to be. Votes: 0

I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it. Votes: 0

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives. Votes: 0

Lawless are they that make their wills their law. Votes: 0

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills. Votes: 0

All things must; man is the only creature that wills. Votes: 0

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on. Votes: 0

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry. Votes: 0

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills. Votes: 0

A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills. Votes: 0

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills Votes: 0

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. Votes: 0

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. Votes: 0

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills. Votes: 0

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. Votes: 0

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved. Votes: 0

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. Votes: 0

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills. Votes: 0

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills. Votes: 0

This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills. Votes: 0

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any Votes: 0

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills. Votes: 0

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that's all! Votes: 0

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. Votes: 0

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine. Votes: 0

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. Votes: 0

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. Votes: 0

It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men. Votes: 0

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God. Votes: 0

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills. Votes: 0

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? Votes: 0

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. Votes: 0

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills. Votes: 0

What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness. Votes: 0

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. Votes: 0

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. Votes: 0

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills. Votes: 0

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Votes: 0

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. Votes: 0

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die. Votes: 0

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. Votes: 0

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. Votes: 0

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor Votes: 0

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed. Votes: 0

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills. Votes: 0

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's? Votes: 0

Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do. Votes: 0

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God's. Votes: 0

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good. Votes: 0

But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. Votes: 0

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. Votes: 0

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit... Votes: 0

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like. Votes: 0

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. Votes: 0

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him Votes: 0

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. Votes: 0

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it. Votes: 0

There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide. Votes: 0

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. Votes: 0

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. Votes: 0

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. Votes: 0

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. Votes: 0

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. Votes: 0

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. Votes: 0

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills. Votes: 0

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen Votes: 0

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. Votes: 0

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable. Votes: 0

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills. Votes: 0

Our battle of wills would never be complete. But there was no battle worth fighting if it would tear us apart. Votes: 0

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence. Votes: 0

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. Votes: 0

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists. Votes: 0

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. Votes: 0

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. Votes: 0

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing. Votes: 0

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. Votes: 0

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. Votes: 0

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. Votes: 0

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. Votes: 0

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses. Votes: 0

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through. Votes: 0

If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God. Votes: 0

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. Votes: 0

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream. Votes: 0

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. Votes: 0

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace. Votes: 0

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it. Votes: 0

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills. Votes: 0

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. Votes: 0

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin. Votes: 0

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills. Votes: 0

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. Votes: 0

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it. Votes: 0

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Votes: 0

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within. Votes: 0

Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle. Votes: 0

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent! Votes: 0

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself Votes: 0

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing. Votes: 0

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself. Votes: 0

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. Votes: 0

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others. Votes: 0

We may feel that a particular habit 'isn't too bad,'but continually giving in to that habit weakens our wills against the onslaughts of temptation from other directions. Votes: 0

You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. Votes: 0

There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich. Votes: 0

I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless... Votes: 0

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it." Votes: 0

Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good. Votes: 0

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. Votes: 0

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up. Votes: 0

Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity. Votes: 0

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about. Votes: 0

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. Votes: 0

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer. Votes: 0

God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking. Votes: 0

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation. Votes: 0

God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason. Votes: 0

No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ. Votes: 0

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills. Votes: 0

The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills... Votes: 0

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills. Votes: 0

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. Votes: 0

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills. Votes: 0

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends. Votes: 0

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask. Votes: 0

Dodd-Frank and independent actions of banks go a long way in terms of progress on capital, liquidity, transparency, "living wills" (plans for winding down a bank in the event of a collapse) and resolutions. Votes: 0

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills! Votes: 0

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills. Votes: 0

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills. Votes: 0

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task Votes: 0

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task. Votes: 0