Exhilarating Quotes
146 quotes by 134 authors
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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
— Lynda Barry
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and…
— Drew Barrymore
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
— Charles Baudelaire
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces…
— A. S. Byatt
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
— Winston Churchill
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some…
— Howard Zinn
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In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth…
— Janet McKenzie Hill
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Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were…
— Jim Rohn
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Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that…
— Hans Selye
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The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so…
— H. L. Mencken
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through…
— Tom Peters
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Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.
— Sebastian Coe
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm…
— Maya Angelou
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I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its…
— Peter Garrett
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the…
— Hal Porter
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I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
— Jane Goodall
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Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense…
— Thomas Anthony Dooley III
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its…
— Gordon Cooper
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