Lively Quotes

191 quotes by 174 authors

The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis… — Eugene H. Peterson
Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is… — Vincent Van Gogh
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration. — B.K.S. Iyengar
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and… — Sarah Bernhardt
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality… — Roald Hoffmann
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries,… — Unknown Author
A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy.… — Marguerite de Angeli
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are… — Sarah Zettel
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files… — Theodore Zeldin
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it. — Unknown Author
Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history.… — Carolyn Merchant
The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though. — Vanessa Kerry
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts.… — Svante Arrhenius
I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively… — Veruschka von Lehndorff
These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check… — Robertson Davies
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations. — Siegbert Tarrasch
I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am cheerful, pleasant, lively… — Heber C. Kimball
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification. — Richard Wall
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in… — Nancy Mitford

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