Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained… — Daniel S Greenberg Copy Share Image
“When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity,… — Josephus Copy Share Image
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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