Quotes with eager

  • When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
  • We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
  • The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
  • I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
  • Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
  • I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
  • And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
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  • George Santayana Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler 'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Don Marquis A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Albrecht Durer And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Jean Baudrillard At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Boman Irani First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, 'No, sorry, sorry, no pictures'. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Baruj Benacerraf In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Bill Hybels Keep on praying because the Father does listen. He loves our company, he wants us to endure in prayerfulness and he is eager to do whatever is best for us.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • James Baldwin Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Anton Chekhov People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Thomas Arnold Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The concept is always clothed with emotion, that is to say, with hope, or with fear, or with hatred, or with eager aspiration.
    Modes of thought (1938)
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Lee Iacocca The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Frank A. Clark The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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