Ardent Quotes

146 Ardent quotes by 127 unique authors

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
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
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
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. — E. O. Wilson
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive! — Anne Fortier
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
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
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
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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