Spirited Quotes

124 quotes by 115 authors

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is… — Michel de Montaigne
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is… — Ronald Reagan
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film. — David Ogden Stiers
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why… — Barbra Streisand
I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too… — Tracey Ullman
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. — Vivienne Westwood
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in… — Ann Coulter
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. — Tom Hodgkinson
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating… — Salman Rushdie
It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore. — Alan Moore
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned… — Ian Mcewan
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if… — Michael Ondaatje
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a… — Charles de Lint
We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings… — Jerome K. Jerome
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. — Pat Conroy
Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it… — Stendhal

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