#willing

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

We must be willing to courageously invest in our city. ↗

— Alan Autry

#courageously #invest #must #our #willing

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#else #need #people #saying #something

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#man #ready #recall #repeat #silence

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#good #good cause #heaven #here #home

I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Brown

#collect #direct #does #free-trade #government

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. ↗

— Thomas Campion

#more #never #sail #shore #willing

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable. ↗

— Mark David Chapman

#did #i #john #lennon #life

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#cap #corner #eliminating #investigate #president

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#cheerful #curiosity #endows #form #generosity