Vehement Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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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
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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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
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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.
— Oliver Sacks
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Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
— Le Corbusier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
— Eric Hoffer
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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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