Eager Quotes

455 Eager quotes by 386 unique authors

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. — Edward Thorndike
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you… — Zhang Ziyi
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
So eager are our people to obliterate the present. — Franz Kafka
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.… — Milan Kundera
You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it… — Italo Calvino
In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright… — Hugh Laurie
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to… — Helen Keller
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is… — Susan Sontag
This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you. — Daniel Handler
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. — Jane Austen
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the… — Robertson Davies
The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women.… — Mitch Albom
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. — Arundhati Roy
A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take… — Edward Abbey
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical… — Jack Kerouac
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual… — Joseph Conrad
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so… — David Foster Wallace
He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with… — W. Somerset Maugham
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of… — Voltaire
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would… — Lewis Carroll
In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more… — Denise Levertov
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet… — Christopher Isherwood

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