Quotes with willing--anxious

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  • Campbell Brown The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bert Lance The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Queen Victoria The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Bayard Rustin The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision...
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Ben Nelson The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Josh Billings The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Carol Shields The time has to be right and the heart willing.
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    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Scargill The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Candace Bushnell The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Robert Frost The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Greg LeMond There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
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  • Dwight L. Moody There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Belle Boyd There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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