#willing

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #decisions #executive #fall #happiest

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#commit #fails #good #good governance #governance

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it. ↗

— Fred Hampton

#just #me #peace #say #willing

We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#anyone #apart #become #book #came

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#about #advice #available #being #bummed

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#back #budget #campaign #certainly #compromise

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#again #been #build #clear #fear

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others. ↗

— Paul Harris

#employ #enforce #his #knows #less

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

— Auberon Herbert

#forcibly #immoral #oppressive #person #rate

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#heroism #i #idea #know #lives