Vehement Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility… — Alfred Adler
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a… — Samuel Johnson
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the… — John Burroughs
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public… — William J. Brennan
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the… — Hildegard of Bingen
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot… — Solomon
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. — Oliver Sacks
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. — Le Corbusier
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And… — Walt Whitman
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels… — Saul Bellow
I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish… — William Shakespeare
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him,… — Richard Savage
I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near… — Dylan Thomas
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the… — Alfred North Whitehead
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. — Eric Hoffer
God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and… — Nick Cave

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