Unwilling Quotes

See also Will QuotesSee also Will Quotes, Core English Vocabulary (U) Quotes

"I didn`t want Frank (Miller, creator of the comic "Sin City" and co-writer on the film) to be treated just as a writer because he is the only one who has actually been to `Sin City`. I am making such a literal interpretation of his book that I`d have felt weird taking directing credit without him. It was easier for me to quietly resign because otherwise I`d have been force to make compromises I was unwilling to make, or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on." -- March, 2004 in response to why he left the Directors` Guild of America just before the filming of Sin City (2005)

- Robert Rodriguez

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don`t really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use.

- Emma Thompson

(On The Boys from Brazil (1978)) "I felt, Laurence Olivier felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image."

- Gregory Peck

There are many talented people who haven`t fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

- James Cameron

I`ve been in recovery for nine years. I describe the experience as like being an unwilling participant with alcoholism. The whole experience is very frightening and I know it`s a big problem here like it is back home. It`s a scary situation to be in. I`m just trying to do my bit and let people know that they`re not alone if they`re going through it. If I can help them out, do the work I love to do and spend the rest of my time with friends and family, enjoying my time with the people I love, then that`s what it`s all about. - England, Sept. 2005

- Lynda Carter

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I think 9/11 was the predominant overriding element. And I think that in the end, an awful lot of people were unwilling to switch commander-in-chief in midstream. And it just came down to, sort of, that perception. (Imus in the Morning, February 7, 2005 - on why he believes he lost the 2004 presidential election)

- John Kerry

How could I get up there and say, `People, we`ve got to do better,` when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I`ve always believed leaders don`t ask others to do what they`re unwilling to do.

- Mike Huckabee

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

- Pat Sajak

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

- James Allen

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a `hot button` issue, this is definitely it. Don`t even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

- Michael Badnarik

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

- Nikki Giovanni

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

- Edward Hopper

I believe that the great painters, with their intellect as master, have attempted to force the unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. I find any digression from this large aim leads me to boredom.

- Edward Hopper

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

- Al Gonzales

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

- Al Hutchinson

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

- Alex Okosi

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

- Alexander Jablokov

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

- Alexandros Roussos

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

- Ambrose Redmoon

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

- Ambrose Redmoon

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

- American Council

(I)f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.

- Barbara Petersen

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they`re an explicit acknowledgment that what you`re doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don`t want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.

- Derrick Jensen

We choose to go...not because (it is) easy, but because (it is) hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy