Vigor Quotes

179 quotes by 152 authors

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've… — Simone de Beauvoir
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. — Henry David Thoreau
Your vigor for life appalls me. — Robert Crumb
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to… — Ambrose Bierce
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. — Lord Byron
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor. — William Strunk, Jr.
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet… — Dorothy Parker
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-… — Jonathan Stroud
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down… — Annie Dillard
Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and… — F B Meyer
Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their… — Laura Hillenbrand
Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the… — Martha Graham
If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience.… — Charlie Munger
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with… — Edgard Varese
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor — Seneca the Younger
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. — Henry Ward Beecher
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness. — Italo Calvino
It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth,… — George Eastman

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