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Quotes About Fervor

It's hard to talk about what you believe while you are believing it. Fervor reduces thought to shorthand and all we get is an icon.
~ Richard Siken
I like enthusiasts of any kind.
~ Roald Dahl
began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
~ Roald Dahl
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
~ Roald Dahl
You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.
~ Robert Greene
Kresley Cole
~ clothesgasm
Quiéreme tan ferozmente como te quiero... deséame como nunca has deseado a otra.- Mariketa
~ Kresley Cole
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
~ J. C. Ryle
Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.
~ Patrick Roy
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
~ Abraham Cowley
I longed to devote my life to something valuable with a fervor that would consume my being. Young people today probably think the same way. But in our time we were not left to ourselves as they are. All of us believed in some kind of god. We believed in a scholar or in scholarship itself; we believed that right actually exists. All that kind of thing has been swept away, and philosophy, religion and morality must be created anew, from the ground up.
~ Yasushi Inoue
And one clouded stream that never ran dry was that choked with the scum of humanism, the poison spewed out by the factory at its headwaters. There it was: its lights burning brilliantly as it worked even through the night - the factory of Western European ideals. The pollution from that factory degraded the exalted fervor to kill; it withered the green of the sakaki's leaves.
~ Yukio Mishima
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
~ Yves St. Laurent
Man ... heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.
~ zafon carlos ruiz ii
I close my eyes, inhale, and feel a rush of heat and energy that takes my breath away. It is the feeling of wanting something so much that it borders on an actual need, and the power and urgency of this need overwhelms me.
~ Emily Giffin
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
~ Eric Hoffer
The contribution of the Western democracies to the awakening of the East has been indirect and certainly unintended. They have kindled an enthusiasm of resentment against the West; and it is this anti-Western fervor which is at present rousing the Orient from its stagnation of centuries.2
~ Eric Hoffer
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.
~ William Godwin
There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.
~ Dave Pelzer
The comic book nerds] haggle over pedantic nonsense in shrill voices.
~ Rick Remender
Hot rage runs through you, and is close kin to hot passion, but cold rage, that is close kin to hate.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Je weniger wirkliches Wissen, desto mehr Hitze und Aufregung.
~ Laurence Sterne