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
those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned — Samuel Johnson 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
If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost… — Joel Houston Copy Share Image
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Passion is the desire to do something with fervor. It is the certainty that one is going to accomplish their dreams — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars. — Huey Newton 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
Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance. — Italo Svevo 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
It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes… — Simon Blackburn 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
If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel… — Thomas Sowell 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
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
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
I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose… — Richard Wurmbrand 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
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
“Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.” — Rebecca Ross Copy Share Image
I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream… — Jonathan Falwell 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
No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe… — Ludwig von Mises 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
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image