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We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!

John F. Kennedy

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

John F. Kennedy

Consumers want products that fit in a health-conscious lifestyle and yet they are unwilling to compromise on taste. Our 100 Calorie Mini Bites gives consumers 'snack balance' -- their favorite brands in convenient portion packaging that takes the guess work out of calorie control.

Jeff Swearingen

People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but also because everybody gets nervous around such volatility.

Martin Angel

How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Mike Huckabee

When others were unwilling to do so, each man recognized a moral obligation to speak out against policies he believed were misguided and contrary to our national interest. Representative Murtha broke ranks with our nation's political and military leadership to call for the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq.

Caroline Kennedy

Unwilling to achieve a mutually agreeable solution through negotiations, their 1113 filing amounts to nothing less than an attempt to bully us into compliance. Management is letting their own unyielding and unreasonable demands dictate a path toward confrontation and further failure.

Lee Moak

The solution is to go after the employers. But the government has proven unwilling to do that.

Greg Shell

Today, we fail not because (of) our inability to do something, we fail today because of our unwillingness to tackle it in the first place. We are unwilling to take a chance, stick our neck out and go and do some of these things.

Walter Cunningham

Northwest was unwilling to offer a severance package that we felt met the very minimal level that was needed to adequately compensate those who would be denied a position.

Jeff Mathews

If a mother is unwilling or unable to care for a child, she can walk into a hospital or fire station and hand over her child. The goal is to prevent what happened in Phoenix today.

Josh Weiss

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Nikki Giovanni

But if the last five years have taught us anything, it's that this Congress is unwilling to police itself or this administration, ... The only viable option is an independent commission immune from political influence and partisanship.

Alcee Hastings

It's a sector that runs alongside the public program but it's important to have that there to create a competitive restraint for the public program. And to give patients the opportunity to seek care on their own terms with their own hard earned resources when the public program's either unwilling or unable to meet their needs.

Nadeem Esmail

If the DUP is unwilling to break out of its negative cycle and begin to show the positive leadership which the political process and also their own community require and deserve, then the two governments need to push ahead with the full implementation of the [Good Friday] Agreement.

Martin Mcguinness

Investors are unwilling to buy bonds today. Everyone is cautious about good U.S. job data, staying alert for further gains in bond yields.

Yasunori Kuroda

The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious.

Jim Coudal

They seem to have gotten into a horse race to see how fast they can get this grant done. I have a real concern with that. They've been so focused on moving ahead, they're unwilling to listen to others. ... (The proposal) has got a real hotel feel to it.

Rick Tacy

I was unwilling at first. I had a lot going on, but eventually it just grew and grew.

Jason Burke

[Arthur Daley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of the New York Times, expressed an opinion that was typical.] This fight should not be patronized either in person or on theatre TV, ... Not a nickel should be contributed to the coffers of Clay, the black Muslims, or the promoter who jammed this down so many unwilling throats.

Arthur Daley

I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are.

Matthew Lotti

In the past, the town was much more realistic with its offers. The township's negotiator has been unwilling to move forward.

John Hulse

That eternally harassing, tantalizing future. Mystery! We will all eventually arrive there - willing or unwilling, with all our soul and body. And too often it proves to be a great despot. And so, in the end, I arrived too. Whether the future is a kind or a cruel god is, of course, its own affair. Humanity too often claps with just one hand.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Sometimes persons are even unwilling to lodge complaints to the CAC.

Dorothy Campbell

Evangelisation is what evangelicals are supposed to do. It is a central element of their religious identity that they will certainly be unwilling to erase.

Frederick Clarkson

It?s the same old problem, we refuse to be patient and disciplined on offense. A lot of it was due to their pressure, it?s just non-stop. But our reaction to the pressure was to pound the ball up the floor; we really never got into our offensive sets. We were unable and unwilling - maybe unwilling - to slow it down and get organized.

Dan Parr

If not, call a hospital and ask. If they are unwilling to divulge that information, then find another hospital.

Barbara Blakeney

My take is that J&J would still like to do the deal but that Guidant is unwilling to negotiate the price enough so that J&J is satisfied.

Patrick Kaser

I have never, on the field of battle, sent you where I was unwilling to go myself; nor would I advise to go a course which I myself was unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers; you can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the Government to which you have surrendered can afford to be, and will be, magnanimous.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.

John Aiken

It defeats the purpose of debates when the incumbent is unwilling to defend his record.

Russ Dondero

Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.

George Meredith

Campaign finance laws exist for disclosure. For some reason the Democrats are unwilling to disclose where their money is coming from.

Chuck Denowh

This government wants to end the post-Communist period. It is crucial to educating the public in the way that Poland was kept as an unwilling ally in the Cold War. It is important for people to know who was the hero and who was the villain.

Radoslaw Sikorski

Hendrick is a large powerhouse hospital in the community, and they've captured the market share through contracts. They are unwilling to give that up by us having access to that patient base. Therefore, they have a monopoly. It seems to me they are using their strength and market presence to let (Blue Cross) know that.

Ned Schwing

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Plato

The juggernaut -- the best and biggest military force in the world -- lumbers on, doing what it knows how to do best. It is unwilling to rethink its future, unable to let go of the past. Like the shark, it must keep feeding, only now it is feeding on itself.

William Greider

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the main comments that I've heard regarding this issue is parents and educators saying that they are unwilling or discouraged from working together because of the nature of this legislation.

Carol Lear

And because they have been unwilling to intervene early in the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo, they have ended up having to intervene -- in particular in Kosovo -- in a much greater fashion, a much stronger fashion later on after the crisis has grown, has expanded and the killing has gotten very serious.

Jim Hooper

This president is losing his capacity to get a major domestic accomplishment because he is unwilling to put any portion of the tax cuts for the highest-income Americans on the table.

Stan Collender

The U.S. effort to force GM foods upon unwilling consumers is offensive and misguided.

Jim Murray (beuc)

Truman understood from the start what the Bush administration today seems unwilling to concede: that the benefits of international cooperation are well worth the cost.

Stephen Schlesinger

[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.

Terry Tempest Williams

The establishment is desperate to keep together the communion. But the liberals are unwilling to revisit or invalidate the movements that the conservatives find intolerable. This tolerance has been stretched to the breaking point.

George Curry

So far, the Democrats have been cowardly and unwilling to speak out. They need to do so if they want to reap the political benefits of Bush's unpopularity.

Phyllis Bennis

It really concerns me that we are losing a great statesman because the current leadership is so unwilling to realize that there are others who are different than them in many ways which is what makes our state great.

Chuck Bowen

Absent such a compelling justification, [Tuesday]'s order is deeply disturbing and further evidence that the administration is totally unwilling to abide by the checks and balances that are so central to our democracy. Increasingly they appear willing to circumvent the requirements of the Bill of Rights.

Laura Murphy

We were disappointed they wouldn't even review it. All we asked them was to just look at it, and they were unwilling to do so.

Brian Callaghan

Without that, Nasdaq was unwilling to increase its bid.

Richard Repetto

I'm going to follow my orders because I'm unwilling to go back to the hospital.

Ron Hirst

U.S. Rep. John Murtha and Alberto Mora exemplify the kind of courage my father admired most. When others were unwilling to do so, each man recognized a moral obligation to speak out against policies he believed were misguided and contrary to our national interest.

Caroline Kennedy

We are unwilling to accept any unnecessary risk and we will protect our industry from any invasive disease. At the risk of being offensive to our friends in Florida, this plan, this science, is all new to us. Didn't the scientists just come out against the 1,900-foot rule? Didn't they say that would eradicate canker?

Joel Nelsen

We are not allowed and are unwilling to kick anybody out. The theatre is available for student-run productions and the sentiment at Swat is that these are just as important as any other event, regardless of how much money it costs.

Martyna Pospieszalska

This has given the South African public and the international community the impression that government is unwilling to be open and accountable on the issue of electricity shortages.

Hendrik Schmidt

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change.

John Wilhelm

As long as the government is unwilling to discuss the coca issue we won't have an agreement.

Evo Morales

I think we'll give them a good game, and it's all a matter of who comes out on top. It's as simple as that. Those guys on their line are going to give us a fight. But we've always been very unwilling to back down, always willing to fight.

Ernest Hunter

Some of (the concerns) we were able to deal with -- having to do with sensitivities in the portrayal of Islam in the movie, ... But some of which asked us to change the premise of the film, which we were unwilling to do.

Ed Zwick