Quotes About Eagerness

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

It's like all the other hours of the day are spent looking forward to right now.

Kitty's been a nervous bundle of energy all day; it's like her birthday and Christmas and first day of school combined.

I feel like a purse bulging with gold coins. I can't wait to spill.

Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.

I want that quiet rapture agin. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick join the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

I want to feel that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken in me the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn--nor as eager. I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody.

Then that the afternoon should come; that it should come flying.

What is most needed in our time are Christians who are deeply serious about cultivating and creating but who wear that seriousness lightly—who are not desperately trying to change the world but who also wake up every morning eager to create.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

It doesn't matter if what happens next spoils everything; the anticipation itself is always pure.

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.

There's nothing like young children's energy... They are always curious, and enthusiastic about many different things.

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat