Activity Quote by George Bancroft Download Open image “Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.” — George Bancroft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Desire Ennui Fit Mean
“The object most interesting to me for the residue of my life, will be to see you both developing daily those principles of virtue… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Any activity where you let go of fears and doubts and inertia, and move toward a goal you desire brings, if not the goal… — Martin Gover Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true… — Lawrence Crane Copy Share Image
Passion, the powerful desire to please limitless, uninhibited until there are no desires remaining. — Stacy Wilks Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of desire that it remains unfulfilled. It will arise again and again, and the more you try to fulfill… — Osho Copy Share Image
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other. — Jean Royer Copy Share Image
“The disturbances in the country grew not out of anything republican, but out of slavery, which is a part of the system of hereditary… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
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