Lively Quotes

191 quotes by 178 authors

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. — Jane Austen
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. — Mel Brooks
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. — Rita Mae Brown
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. — Julie Burchill
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see… — Hu Jintao
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This… — Julia Cameron
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to… — Brenda Ueland
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. — Richard Aldington
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart,… — George Whitefield
Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of… — Humphry Davy
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only… — Pope Benedict XVI
We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much… — Norm MacDonald
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest… — Sybille Bedford
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. — Edmund Burke
Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to… — Naomi Ragen
The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the… — Laura Amy Schlitz

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