Eagerness Quotes

87 Eagerness quotes by 81 unique authors

A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath… — Paul Robeson
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. — Zane Grey
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. — George Eliot
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. — Desiderius Erasmus
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. — Padma Lakshmi
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news. — Kim Edwards
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into… — Anais Nin
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
With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to… — Clive Barker
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte
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
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
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
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
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
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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