Eager Quotes

455 Eager quotes by 386 unique authors

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know. — Learned Hand
If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowersâ€”that deep… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. — John Updike
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race. — Taylor Caldwell
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation. — Arthur C. Clarke
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not… — George Santayana
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. — Walter Pater
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number… — John Howe
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation… — Cyril Connolly
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings… — William Safire
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in… — Ludwig von Mises
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very… — Howard Stringer
It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager… — R L Stine
Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he's doing and so eager to… — Juno Temple
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we… — M. Scott Peck
The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each… — Carl Sagan
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table,… — Jan Karon
Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. — Homer

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