Lively Quotes

191 quotes by 174 authors

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. — David Hume
Life is a lively process of becoming. — Douglas MacArthur
I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch
People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun. — James Patterson
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. — Theodore Roethke
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure… — Marquis de Sade
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. — Jane Smiley
I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself. — Rod Stewart
I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have. — Jacki Weaver
Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes. — Vivienne Westwood
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that… — Noam Chomsky
Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew… — P.G. Wodehouse
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10) — Charles Spurgeon
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… — Bill Bryson
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous. — Jane Austen
He's just rather more lively than most fossils. — Tamora Pierce
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled… — Thomas Mann
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or… — Jonathan Edwards
I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was my mother. I… — Elizabeth Berg

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