Quotes About Eagerness

Sometimes it's like that. You know something good is coming, and even though it's not even close yet, still, just knowing it's coming is enough to make you snort and nicker. Sort of. -Jack

The House on the Hill was in a tizzy. At long last, it was time to go home.

I was young, so that I desired high things only.

No one in Middle march was likely to have such a notion of Lydgate's past as has here been faintly shadowed, and indeed the respectable townsfolk there were not more given than mortals generally to any eager attempt at exactness in the representation to themselves of what did not come under their own senses.

Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.

When some women literally throw themselves at you, it's easy to get confused and think that every woman is eager for your attentions.

He couldn't wait.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

He also had a gung-ho hairline. It couldn't wait to get started

I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;

No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be someone eager a. to misinterpret it, b. to fake it, or c. to believe it happened according to his own pet theory.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it. Rhetoric, fourth century BCE (BC)

Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, I've had enough of this.

When you love something enough time races ahead like the wind chasing autumn leaves, sending them skipping and dancing out of reach, no matter how fast you run. But when you want something and must wait to get it, time stops

There exists no purer concentration of Americanism than among the First Americans." The Navajos were so eager to fight that some of them lied about their age, or gorged themselves on bunches of bananas and swallowed great quantities of water in order to reach the minimum weight requirement of 120 pounds.

Life is comfortable and clean enough here already. And so secure. What it needs it to be less secure, more eager.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

Relationship tiesheart of two souls eager to fly freely soaring to sky featsin full-fledged wingsunrestrained passionsto a realm in whichboth remain invisible.

Get on fire for God, and people will come to watch you burn!"-John Wesley

you again! I knew you'd come back. I've been so bored. Is it time to play again?

Like an eagle darting on his prey, he took her utterly to him, set her on his knees, and felt with an indescribable intoxication the voluptuous pressure of this girl, whose richly developed beauties softly enveloped him.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.