Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
I'm an avid fan of boxing, so the eagerness was there, the desirewas there but I dunno...physically, this was the most I… — Omar Epps Copy Share Image
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating and drinking.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help.… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about pretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we’re seized with; That he must hold in check the… — Molière Copy Share Image
If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new… — Carlo Borromeo Copy Share Image
I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship.… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness,… — Henry Clausen Copy Share Image
Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
