Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life. — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
“No spirited mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength; it has impulses beyond its power of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. — Horace Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Make the best of every situation & make sure that when people think of you, they think of a positive & spirited person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
It is the strength of the mother that is going to change the way the world is. It's the compassion, the love,… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“You may wish to capture a wild thing as you covet their unbreakable spirit, but as much as you may wish to… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
“3. SENSITIVITY: Keenly aware, spirited kids quickly respond to the slightest noises, smells, lights, textures, or changes in mood. They are easily… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure if it was the despondent look in a parent’s big brown eyes and the hopeless shake of her head… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable… — Andreas Libavius Copy Share Image
“Intense spirited kids need to hear phrases like: You are enthusiastic. You are expressive and lively. That can be frustrating. You are… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato Copy Share Image
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
“3. You are not powerless. There is information in this book to help you understand your spirited child. You can read it… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
