Ardent Quotes - Page 5

• There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

  Dean Koontz

  Emotional, Perfection, Forever

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.194, Bantam

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• No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Blue, Paris

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.

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• Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the religious imagination. To try to make a fresh way of talking at the most serious, ardent, and enthusiastic level, heading off the religious encapsulation, is one of the primary intellectual tasks of future thought.

  Susan Sontag

  Religious, Talking, Imagination

  "Styles of Radical Will" by Susan Sontag, (p. 69), 1966.

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Passion, Men, Calm

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Philip. Polynices. Antigone. Virginia. Agamemnon. Orestes. Rosmunda. Octavia. Timoleon. Merope. Mary Stuart”

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• Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

  Mitt Romney

  Team, Fans, Great Friend

  "Mitt Romney: ‘I Have Some Friends Who Are NASCAR Team Owners’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again. Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling is like a festival outside my window.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Memories, Soul

  Anna Akhmatova, “The Sentence”

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• We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

  John C. Danforth

  Humility, Should, Said

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 17, September 19, 2006.

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• It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Practice, Psychology, Students

  George Trumbull Ladd (1895). “Philosophy of Mind”, Ams PressInc

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• I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Father, House

  John Ruskin (1900). “The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc”

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• Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Friendship, Sun, Righteousness

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.4

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• I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Sacrifice, Temples

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.202, Courier Corporation

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• Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless but hurtful; and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue, and the happiness of the community, we hereby express our convention that should the citizens of the United States, and especially ALL YOUNG MEN, discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Community

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• Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Passion, Two, Liberty

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.159

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• Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Passion, Fire, Hands

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington (2005). “The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington”, Nonsuch Pub

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• Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

  Nella Larsen

  Kindness, Thinking, Religion

  Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.188, Anchor

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• I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Desire, May

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.292

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• Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.

  Frederick The Great

  Europe, Imagination, Romance

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• I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

  Vijender Singh

  Football, Boxing, Tennis

  "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. Jun 1, 2012.

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• Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics

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• There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

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• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.

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• An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

  Mason Cooley

  Friendship, Old Friends, Lovers

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• Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.

  James Madison

  Country, Alcohol, Age

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.384

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