A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Choose some sport or other vigorous physical exercise that is consistent with your situation and physical condition and be regular in pursuing… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person. — Sally Field Copy Share Image
It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or… — John Grant Copy Share Image
One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method,… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,… — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates… — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image
In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict - and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate - it's a feature… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate. — Vin Weber Copy Share Image
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