Quotes About Ardor

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

I'm not even close to those guys, but I don't think anyone loves the game more than me.

And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.

Atormentaste-me com a tua insistência, transtornaste-me com o teu ardor, encantaste-me com a tua delicadeza, confiei nas tuas juras, seduziu-me a minha inclinação violenta, e o que se seguiu a tão agradável e feliz começo não são mais que suspiros, lágrimas e uma tristíssima morte que julgo sem remédio. É certo que tive, ao amar-te, alegrias surpreendentes, mas custam-me agora os maiores tormentos: são extremas todas as emoções que me causas.

The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs, Burns but more clearly. O she had not these ways When all the wild summer was in her gaze. —WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

One is very crazy when in love.

It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

Y agrega que no puede haber mentalidad mas simple y mas córnea que la de un aficionado

from the Latin verb amare, "to love," referred to a person who loved what he was doing. Similarly a "dilettante," from the Latin delectare, "to find delight in

After all, fear is the passionate enthusiasm for the same.

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

Communal living had proved quite impossible for me. It gave me chills just to hear such words as "the ardor of youth" or "youthful pride": I could not by any stretch of the imagination soak myself in "college spirit.

Communal living had proved quite impossible for me. It gave me chills just to hear such words as "the ardor of youth" or "youthful pride": I could not by any stretch of the imagination soak myself in "college spirit." The classrooms and the dormitory seemed like the dumping grounds of distorted sexual desires, and even my virtually perfected antics were of no use there.

Romantic ardor is in basic principle Lethean. Its purpose is temporarily to blind us to one another; make us forget the low esteem in which we really hold one another, and in which we quite deserve to be held; the anesthetic administered to reason without which the race would not go on.