Vigorous Quotes
209 quotes by 176 authors
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I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from…
— James Dobson
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Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very…
— Albert Ellis
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I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
— Sally Field
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however…
— John Heywood
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to…
— Eric Hoffer
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
— Lady Bird Johnson
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
— Samuel Johnson
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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour.…
— Jack LaLanne
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
— George Santayana
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.
— Andrew Weil
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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
— Paul Dudley White
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The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive…
— George Edward Woodberry
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to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes…
— Henry David Thoreau
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of…
— Abigail Adams
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One…
— Carl Sagan
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
— Abigail Adams
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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take…
— Alexandre Dumas
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A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy…
— A. J. Jacobs
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We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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