My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing!… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless;… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America and, indeed, with its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation.… — Russell B. Long Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking,… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image