Irrepressible Quotes

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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it. — Abraham Lincoln
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that… — Steve Ballmer
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and… — Ezra Pound
It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control… — Hyman Rickover
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally… — Hannah Arendt
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia… — Jacques Derrida
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've… — Chris Kraus
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble. — Sappho
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep… — Walter Mosley
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is… — Ed McClanahan
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. — William H. Seward
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist… — Mahatma Gandhi
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which… — John Stuart Mill
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their… — Alistair Cooke
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the… — Barbara Tuchman
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have… — Mo Yan
man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning… — Arthur Koestler
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. — John Henninger Reagan
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art… — A. Bartlett Giamatti

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