Eagerness Quotes
87 quotes by 81 authors
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I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly…
— Peter S. Beagle
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Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
— Margaret Atwood
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I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and…
— Philip Roth
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When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our…
— Khalil Gibran
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care…
— Samuel Johnson
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She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
— Charlotte Bronte
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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no…
— Jane Austen
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Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,…
— Paulo Coelho
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I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose…
— Walter Isaacson
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he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there…
— Bernhard Schlink
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
— Susan Sontag
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Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they…
— H. L. Mencken
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
— Foster Friess
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