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Quotes About Eager

I am truly anxious to get on with my life.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
It was as if the eager current of her being had been checked by a sudden obstacle which drove it back upon itself. She looked at him helplessly, like a hurt or frightened child: this real self of hers, which he had the faculty of drawing out of the depths, was so little accustomed to go alone!
~ Edith Wharton
I believe that this notion of our having a simple pain in the reality, yet a delight in the representation, arises from hence, that we do not sufficiently distinguish what we would by no means choose to do, from what we should be eager enough to see if it was once done. We delight in seeing things, which so far from doing, our heartiest wishes would be to see redressed.
~ Edmund Burke
I can vividly remember the first time I ate a pasty. After a busy day shopping with my gran, she treated me to one. Wide-eyed and with a watering mouth, I chomped down into the crisp, buttery casing. It yielded to my eager bite; the pastry flaked and fluttered down my front.
~ John Whaite
I kind of love opening, because it's easier and kind of just more fun to get up and play fast and furious and have a good time.
~ Aaron Dessner
I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.
~ Emma Watson
I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.
~ Erin Andrews
I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.
~ Aslaug Magnusdottir
Chloe? It's me. After a pause, he added, Derek, like I could mistake that deep rumble for anyone else, like I could mistake that little part of me that perked up like an eager puppy saying, It's him. Quick! Go see what he wants. God, how had I been so blind? It seemed so obvious now.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I could really use that dinner." He plucked the front of his sweat-soaked shirt. "I should have a shower and change. Guess I wasn't thinking this through too well." He glanced toward the house, and I knew he wasn't eager to go in. For the same reason he'd been out here boxing. "You'll dry," I said. "And if the smell doesn't fade, I'll just sit at another table. Now come on before I starve.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.
~ Susan Kay
Every good game leaves the player eager to start again, unsatisfied or inspired by their opponent , there is a hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – my regret is that there is not enough time to play Paul F. Meekin again and win back my watch."
~ Jay Whitehead
Still, Trump was given an early pass. He was new and eager, and sometimes a person's thoughts don't come across correctly.
~ Jeff Pearlman
dying for something to finally come.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I think the audiences in Chicago are really open. They're engaged and eager, and they don't feel cynical to me. Sometimes in New York, there's a sense of, 'Prove it to me; prove this is worth my time.' I never felt that in Chicago.
~ Joe Mantello
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
~ Abdullah II of Jordan
Don't be too hasty," she warned. "Conserve your strength. If you're too eager to fight the undead, you may find yourselves joining them. Then you'd never see us again, and we'd be very sad." "Yes," said Christian. "I'd cry into my pillow every night." I resisted the urge to kick him. "Well, I couldn't visit if I was Strigoi, yeah, but hopefully I'd just die a normal death. Then I could come see you as a ghost.
~ Richelle Mead
I hate to tell you this, but you are just stupid and eager and sincere enough to make the kind of officer that men love to follow into some silly predicament.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Is he evil?" the dog asked, an eager gleam in his wide brown eyes. "If he's evil, I'd be happy to eat him for you.
~ Deborah Blake
When she slept, it was the nightmares that came to her. They waited patiently, and they were always eager to play.
~ Derek Landy
Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.
~ Caroline Pratt
Love was the same way. The higher the stakes, the more impossible the odds, the more eager she was to up the ante. It was the one thing the two sisters had in common.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
He'd chanced upon his favorite hour: A premonition of dawn without any visible sign of it.
~ Jennifer Egan
The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.
~ Emily Bronte