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Quotes About Ardent

They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.
~ Thomas Hardy
They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.
~ Thomas Hardy
a secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.
~ Thomas Mann
You can now find the most ardent Christians lined up in the most ridiculous, regressive, irrational parades. If they were concerned only with flying saucers and conversations with the departed it would not be so bad: but they are also deeply involved in racism, in quasi-Fascist nationalism, in every shade of fanatical hate cult, and in every semilunatic pressure group.
~ Thomas Merton
instead of becoming a strong and ardent and generous Catholic, I simply slipped into the ranks of the millions of tepid and dull and sluggish and indifferent Christians who live a life that is still half animal, and who barely put up a struggle to keep the breath of grace alive in their souls.
~ Thomas Merton
He steers a Loxodrome for the cabinet where ardent Spirits are kept for Guests of the Wet Persuasion, and pretends to weigh his Choice.
~ Thomas Pynchon
A crowd of persons came in as soon as my office was opened. Among them were several ladies who called to pay their respects. None who called had any business of more importance than an ardent desire to serve their country, provided they could be appointed to a good office. As I has none of these to dispose of, they were, of course, disappointed.
~ James K. Polk
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.
~ Dick Williams
Cats All ardent lovers and all sages prize, —As ripening years incline upon their brows— The mild and mighty cats—pride of the house— That like unto them are indolent, stern and wise.
~ Charles Baudelaire
ma un mio sospiro ardente fu più verace testimon del core;
~ Torquato Tasso
As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect.
~ Carole Maso
'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
~ Dana Ashbrook
Les hommes ne font jamais le mal aussi complètement et ardemment que lorsqu'ils le font par conviction religieuse. » (p. 26)
~ Umberto Eco
onetime circus barker who had become senator from North Carolina and was one of the most ardent propagandists of that brand of hundred-per cent Americanism which could hardly be distinguished from Nazi-Fascism.
~ Upton Sinclair
Everybody knew who had murdered Castillo—except those heads of the government who believed in democracy and peace, in civil liberties and freedom of speech, so ardently that they couldn't make any move against the sworn enemies of these blessings.
~ Upton Sinclair
It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.
~ ladd george trumbull
But Laurens, the "young Bayard of the Revolution," fresh from the colleges and courts of Europe, a man so handsome that, we are told, people experienced a certain shock when he entered the room, courtly, accomplished to the highest degree, of flawless character, with a mind as noble and elevated as it was intellectual, and burning with the most elevated patriotism,—he took Hamilton by storm, capturing judgement as well as heart, and loving him as ardently in return.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Packer fans are nuts, man.
~ Ray Nitschke
I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
~ Anita Loos
I'm a nerd at heart.
~ Hope Solo
Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and have not outlived you yet. Welcome, old projects, and old loves, however fleeting, to your nooks among the steadier lights that burn around us
~ Charles Dickens
Although to restless and ardent minds, morning may be the fitting season for exertion and activity, it is not always at that time that hope is strongest or the spirit most sanguine and buoyant.
~ Charles Dickens
Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days.
~ James Joyce
I'm an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets.
~ Mike Oldfield