Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
...Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure,… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. — Andrew Miller Copy Share Image
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — John Owen Copy Share Image
In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action -… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Be vigorous and full of energy, and make ceaseless efforts. This means that little things do not discourage you and that you… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Physical fitness takes commitment to exercise just as it requires good nutrition. But it doesn't have to be painful. Just the opposite:… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
Only when we connect to nature, engaged with nature, are we truly alive and vigorous. To really be alive, one must be… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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