Spirited Quotes

124 quotes by 115 authors

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth… — John Thorn
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. — Euripides
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. — Walt Whitman
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man… — Constance Hale
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and… — David A. Bednar
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' — C.S. Lewis
To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court. — Mats Wilander
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions.… — S. J. Perelman
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular… — Joseph Pulitzer
There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ...… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will… — William Gurnall
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and… — William Howard Taft
There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might… — Darren Shan
Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going... — Warren Miller
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. — Alexandra David-Neel
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and… — Ann M. Martin
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited… — Amy Bloom
Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If… — Andreas Libavius
I still believe one of the most important choices is how we treat others. What good does it do you to build a huge muscular,… — Rich Gaspari

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