Eager Quotes

455 Eager quotes by 386 unique authors

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 naÃ¯ve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet… — Christopher Isherwood
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own… — Sydney J. Harris
Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights."… — Gail Carson Levine
All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your… — Jodi Picoult
The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid.… — Lisa Kleypas
My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off… — Amy Tan

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