#unwilling

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#nothing #unwilling

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. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#during #go #his #jail #locked

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #brought #cannot #deserved #few

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. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#advance #because #between #call #cannot

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#battle #except #forgive #line #man

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#everywhere #forced #forcing #governments #nowhere

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

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