Quotes About Vivacity

who would cry out to the petals on the ground to stay, knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vivacity of what will be?

But there was some life in the thing

How we danced! - Sadie

I'm quite convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

She was often excited. She liked to be excited.

They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.

Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it — develop charm — and vivacity — and — charm!

Through the door came a being of intense vivacity, impeccable sartorial integrity, and intermittent intelligibility.

All of them at length succeeded in getting up the ship's side, where they clung dripping with the brine and glowing from the bath, their jet-black tresses streaming over their shoulders, and half enveloping their otherwise naked forms. There they hung, sparkling with savage vivacity, laughing gaily at one another, and chattering away with infinite glee.

Warmed by their adoration, I feigned disinterest; it was what they expected, of course, and in keping with my public persona. Really, I adore the humans, for all their weaknesses. They have an immediacy, a vivacity lacking in eloim-kind; their brutish enthusiasms are endearing.

I am all for the short and merry life.

At least my blood is flowing

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

it made her look younger, more fit. It increased her energy and her sexual drive.

As she hung up on her end, she actually fanned herself with her hand, something she'd assumed people only did in TV commercials and bad sitcoms. And then she couldn't hold it in. Bursting up from her workstation, she ran around her house like a crazy person, making a bizarre kind of eeeee noise as she completed the circuit back to her desk. At which point there might have been some pirouetting.

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

I feel like I bring the juice and the squeeze.

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Drying releases the soul from personal subjectivism, and, as the moisture recedes, that vivacity once usurped by feeling can now pass over into imagination.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

la pasión no nos regala la eternidad sino la vivacidad, ese minuto en que se entreabren las puertas del tiempo y el espacio.

El amor) No nos regala la eternidad sino la vivacidad, ese minuto en el que se entreabren las puertas del tiempo y del espacio: aquí es allá y ahora es siempre.

Human love is the union of two beings subject to time and its accidents: change, sickness, death. Although it does not save us from time, it opens it a crack, so that in a flash love's contradictory nature is manifest: that vivacity which endlessly destroys itself and is reborn, which is always both now and never. Therefore all love, even the most blissful, is tragic. —Octavio Paz, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism (Ecco; First edition, June 1, 1996)

It was now evening, and by the dim light we could just discern the savage countenances around us, gleaming with wild curiosity and wonder; the naked forms and tattooed limbs of brawny warriors, with here and there the slighter figures of young girls... Nothing can exceed the fierce gesticulation of these people when animated in conversation, and on this occasion they gave loose to all their natural vivacity, shouting and dancing about in a manner that well-night intimidated us.