Ardent Quotes - Page 9

• An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Vulnerable, Temperament

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Sex, Likes, Fortune

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• The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.

  Richard Hough

  Night, Naval Warfare, Numbers

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• I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stress, Philosophy, Real

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• Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doe, Would Be, Use

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• Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Cat, Pride

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• I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

  Anita Loos

  Men, Elk, Emotion

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.

  Abraham Cahan

  Brother, New York, Prayer

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• It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Appreciation, Sadness, Different

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• I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Doe, Knows

  "David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• I'm an ardent American Football fan.

  Don King

  Football, Fans, American Football

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• And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as an image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp of the archetype.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Soul, Desire, Receiving

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