Ardent Quotes

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

The greatest source of inspiration for me has been my wife; she is the love of my life, my best friend, and my most ardent supporter.

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

I am the one rich thing that morn Leaves for the ardent noon to win; Grasp me not, I have a thorn, But bend and take my being in.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes.

The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.

How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand then all was you?