Quotes About Fervor

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

One is very crazy when in love.

like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies.

I didn't know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself

Pure passion equals love.

Love is only one of many passions.

I want my kids to experience passion. I want them to see that I have things I feel passionate about because it is such a great feeling to really love something.

I love her because she has become something more to me. She has become my life. -Jack

Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.

That's religion as an excuse. Sometimes it seems to me that when religious fervor enters the mind, the wits pack up entirely and fly out the ear," Karal replied a bit sourly. "But worst of all is when powerful, ruthless people use the religious fervor of others to further their own greed.

Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.

I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.

More important to what happened in our family, though, was the way my father felt about his work. He loved it. He believed in it with a pure fervor bordering on the religious.

And Hopkins, seeing that Tisdall was unaware of Grant's identity, rushed in with glad maliciousness. "That is Scotland Yard," he said. "Inspector Grant. Never had an unsolved crime to his name." "I hope you write my obituary," Grant said. "I hope I do!" the journalist said, with fervor.

Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.

Chinese fans are just passionate about the game. The love they have is just insane.