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Quotes About Vigorous

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
~ George Foreman
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.
~ George Washington
Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.
~ Jeremy Collier
The power of raising armies, by the most obvious construction of the articles of the Confederation, is merely a power of making requisitions upon the States for quotas of men. This practice in the course of the late war, was found replete with obstructions to a vigorous and to an economical system of defense. It gave birth to a competition between the States which created a kind of auction for men.
~ Alexander Hamilton
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
~ Rene Descartes
Content not yourselves with being in a state of grace, but be also careful that your graces are kept in vigorous and lively exercise, and that you preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others. If
~ Richard Baxter
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I don't like the idea of being chucked out of parliament, chucked out of the party, for basically doing the bleeding obvious: trying to stop an absolutely damaging policy, that a responsible political party should be opposing vigorously.
~ David Gauke
Lo que hoy tiene de particular la incertidumbre es que existe sin la amenaza de un desastre histórico; y en cambio, está integrada en las prácticas cotidianas de un capitalismo vigoroso (…). La consigna "nada a largo plazo" desorienta la acción planificada, disuelve los vínculos de confianza y compromiso y separa la voluntad del comportamiento.
~ Richard Sennett
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
~ Lucy Larcom
Be vibrant, vital, vivacious, vigorous, and victorious with adventure and love.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. It was like trying to make a shark sit up and beg for treats.
~ Deborah Blake
Minstrel music was party music, vigorous and sexy in contrast to the prissy bourgeois music of the era. That is why it succeeded.
~ Dennis McNally
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
~ Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
~ Jennifer Garner
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.
~ Christopher Paolini
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
~ Eric Hoffer
The pursuit of holiness requires sustained and vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no lethargy, no halfhearted commitment, and no laissez faire attitude toward even the smallest sins. In short, it demands the highest priority in the life of a Christian, because to be holy is to be like Christ — God's goal for every Christian.
~ Jerry Bridges
A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the gift of brilliant brevity, are hard workers, diligent scholars and competent stylists.
~ Ernest Hemingway
My health had always been pretty good.
~ Shakin' Stevens
We all know what my game is, to play hard. Not dirty, but play hard.
~ Zaza Pachulia
I'm explosive.
~ Ryan Garcia
I've always been extremely physical.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
~ Robert Goldsborough