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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
— William Hazlitt
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.
— Anthony Trollope
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
— Michael Chabon
Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years?
— John Taylor Gatto
Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency.
— Jean Baudrillard
Ian was egotistical, perverted, and morally bankrupt, but he wasn't prone to overreacting about anything except involuntary abstinence.
— Jeaniene Frost
Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Most real relationships are involuntary.
— Iris Murdoch
Wonder is involuntary praise.
— Edward Young
Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, "Feel joy." He says, "Rejoice!" It's a choice.
— George Foster
Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.]
— Gianrico Carofiglio
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
— John F. Kennedy
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
— Iain Sinclair
Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.
— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
It's a guy thing. We have reactions to women in tight leather with whips. It's sort of involuntary.
— Rachel Caine
My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.
— Jennifer R. McDonald
All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.
— Robert Benchley
although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]
— Linda Lantieri
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and ... almost involuntary in my life.
— Mary Oliver
All beginnings are involuntary.
— Fernando Pessoa
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.
— Jamake Highwater
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
— Octavio Paz
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.
— Jim Butcher
Believing isn't a choice ... belief is an involuntary response to something you've learned or experienced.
— Neil Carter
May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?
— Jonathan Lethem
All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind
— Philip K. Dick
Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.
— Bryant McGill
Many of the gunters on the front lines took an involuntary step backward. A few others turned and ran for their lives.
— Ernest Cline
Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.
— Stefan Molyneux
The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty.
— Amit Kalantri
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
— Mark Twain
My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!
— Charles Dickens
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.
— Honore De Balzac
Love is an involuntary response to virtue.
— Stefan Molyneux
Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.
— Dov Davidoff
How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
— Michel De Montaigne
Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.
— Walter Bagehot
Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.
— Stephen Graham Jones
The body is a marvelous machine ... a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels
— Theodor Herzl
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
— Blaise Pascal
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
— Toby Keith
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
— Mark Twain
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
— Charles Dickens
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
— Tom Lehrer
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
— Kate Millett
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
— Sarah Bernhardt
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
— Blaise Pascal
The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.
— Leah Hager Cohen
Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.
— Gianrico Carofiglio
It is well known that involuntary migrants, no matter what pot they are thrown into, tend not to melt.
— Anne Fadiman
Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, It was involuntary. They think my boat.
— Sally Bedell Smith
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.
— Jim Butcher
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
— Iris Murdoch
