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Quotes About Vigorous

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
~ Lascelles Abercrombie
There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.
~ Mitch Daniels
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.
~ Roxane Gay
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
~ Learned Hand
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
~ Robert Fortune
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.
~ Milton Glaser
The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.
~ Dorothea Dix
It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector.
~ Elaine Chao
It's a long way from Martin Luther's 'On the Freedom of a Christian' to 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and a vigorous Protestantism should be able to prevent the former from degenerating into the latter.
~ Ross Douthat
South Korea is a vigorous democracy, with strong judicial institutions and a commitment to the rule of law.
~ David Lidington
Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.
~ Geoff Mulgan
For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.
~ Robin Marantz Henig
When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
~ Sally Mann
Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.
~ Lionel Shriver
The Netherlands believes in a vigorous Europe with a commission that is independent and robust.
~ Frans Timmermans
Coppice management depends upon the chosen tree being cut when the shoots are straight, vigorous and, critically, not shading out new growth.
~ Monty Don
This is a virile sport in which physical contact is allowed.
~ Miroslav Klose
We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
~ Samuel Johnson
I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.
~ Brad Marchand
I've always had very macho taste in movies.
~ Divine
Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight. ... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290]
~ Diane Ackerman
The purest and noblest exaltation of our ideal in the hearts of the people is a constant and intrepid education; a cautious but vigorous preparation for the armed insurrection.
~ Unknown
Moreover, regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age—after a matter of ten or fifteen years—they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith