#willingness

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#kill #killed #reasons #trivial #willingness

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#definitely #found #held #i #mirror

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead? ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#believe #could #dead #evidence #exactly

Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#carried #conspiracies #hijacked #law #party

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#belief #cheerful #good #make #plus

It's not about worthiness, it's about willingness. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#willingness-to-believe #willingness-to-practice #worthiness #r-alan-woods

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#believe #civilized #doubt #men #proportion

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#allow #any #care #choose #insistence

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that. ↗

— George Wald

#beyond #die #effect #heaven #kill

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#glory #god #willingness