A Quote by Elfriede Jelinek

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

Elfriede Jelinek

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Willingly

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Elfriede Jelinek
American - Novelist
Born: October 20, 1946

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Robert Dale Owen

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

Anne Bishop

Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.

Ephrem the Syrian

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Samuel Beckett

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

Protagoras

No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You’re at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you’re staring at a screen, searching for strangers in Dubai.

Dave Eggers

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!