Vigorous Quotes · Page 4

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and…

— Albert Ellis

One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no…

— James Howard Kunstler

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

— Lydia Sigourney

This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…

— Denis Diderot

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new…

— Erik Erikson

If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

— Dennis Kucinich

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

— Erik Erikson

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

— Mitch Daniels

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he…

— James Bryce

I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their…

— Dave Reichert

You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service.…

— Blaise Pascal

The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,…

— John Ruskin

A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

— Lionel Shriver

In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and…

— Ron Wyden

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One way in which we can encourage the Chinese government to take more vigorous action to control food safety in their country…

— Marion Nestle

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy,…

— Robert Bork

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his…

— Joyce Carol Oates

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest…

— Fanny Kemble

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in…

— Jan Peter Balkenende

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves…

— Samuel Johnson

The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it…

— Garrett Hardin