Vigorous Quotes
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.
Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.
Let there be no doubt: Democrats are the party with two ideas: borrow and spend. The only vigorous internal debate on the left revolves around two questions: How much and how much more?
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.
True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.
In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's part of the greatness of America, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.
Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system that he overcame those beliefs.
Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.