Quotes About Fervor

Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.

There were times in life when nothing short of spitting fire would do.

Extraña locura! El amor a los veinte años se parece a un acceso de fiebre, a un delirio. Cuando termina, cuesta recordar otros… El ardor de la sangre, que se apaga pronto… Ante aquella llamarada de sueños y deseos, qué viejo, qué frío, qué sensato me sentía…

When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion—the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

Passion is unbridled enthusiasm, exuberant energy, and determined devotion to someone or something.

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

In Turkey people really love sport, they only think about football.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

Unless I love something or hate it, I don't want to deal with it.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

As she said in a speech to a library association in 1935, librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

Give me something new, and I'll do it with all my heart.

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.

I am a huge Red Sox fan.

I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

I am a great lover.

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.

To adore one has to yearn.

Love is a kind of insanity.