There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets. — Mike Oldfield Copy Share Image
I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“How is it that there was never you until there was and then all was you?” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The greatest source of inspiration for me has been my wife; she is the love of my life, my best friend, and… — Sebastian Roche Copy Share Image
I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may… — George Washington Copy Share Image
New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball,… — Dick Williams Copy Share Image
Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The more ardent the love for the Eucharist in the hearts of the Christian people, the more clearly will they recognize the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image