Lively Quotes

191 Lively quotes by 174 unique authors

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all… — George Saunders
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at… — Ignatius Loyola
New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively… — Goh Chok Tong
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in… — Gary Gutting
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is… — Jan Gehl
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in… — Al Seckel
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. — William Hazlitt
A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as… — John Suckling
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. — Joyce Cary
Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is… — Raymond Moody
I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have… — Errol Flynn
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine… — Rosellen Brown
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without… — Emile M. Cioran
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way… — Lee H. Hamilton
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. — William Hazlitt
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

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