Ardent Quotes
146 Ardent quotes by 127 unique authors
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I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and…
— Jill Scott
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From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender…
— Steven Spielberg
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world…
— Lech Walesa
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
— E. O. Wilson
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New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports.…
— Dick Williams
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...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she…
— Alexandre Dumas
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites…
— Jane Austen
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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his…
— Wilfred Owen
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but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
— George Eliot
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination…
— Marquis de Sade
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...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature…
— Philip Pullman
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You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know.…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only…
— Nikolai Gogol
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love…
— Sigrid Undset
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Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters…
— Carl Hiaasen
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.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
— Anne Fortier
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But that mimosa grove-the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as…
— Stefan Zweig
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But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and…
— O. Henry
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He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters?…
— Peter Shaffer
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