Ardent Quote by Bayard Taylor

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent…

— George Washington

My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United…

— George Washington

I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign…

— Amira Hass

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

— Cassandra Clare

“His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language." 1Q84, Murakami”

— Murakami Haruki

“Desire to learn. Desire to read. Desire to think. Desire to write.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Celerity is tardiness when ardent desire urges.”

— Publius Syrus

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

— Anonymous

“Desire for books, desire to read.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian cookery writers.

— John Hillcoat

She is written in a foreign tongue.

— Henry James

I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances.

— Thomas Mulcair