We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God;… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“Ardent, adj.: It was as if the whole world could be reduced to the sound of a single string being played, and… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part,… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in… — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly… — Adi Shankar Copy Share Image
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Then Ardent, heavy hearted, turned away; sore for the rusted armor and the wasted days: but as Sir Constant saw his shield,… — W. E. Cule Copy Share Image
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image