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Quotes About Enlivened

They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse.
~ Jonathan Swift
Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.
~ Walker Percy
Others among them lay out under the stars at night and recorded their dreams as if they were transmissions from beyond. As a kind of fiction, it enlivened my reading but was otherwise worthless.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
To wake up and feel enlivened; to be in a hurry to get out of bed and into the day. To have friends you want to speak to, compare experiences with and be on the phone to...Well, to be honest, I'm still some way from that.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
~ Bradley Chicho
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
~ Samuel Johnson
Her soul is Alive. And we are drawn to her.
~ Stasi Eldredge
There is something about the pace and scale of British life - an appreciation of small pleasures, a kind of restraint with respect to greed, generally speaking - that makes life strangely agreeable. The British really are the only people in the world who become genuinely enlivened when presented with a hot beverage and a small plain biscuit.
~ Bill Bryson
The British really are the only people in the world who become genuinely enlivened when presented with a hot beverage and a small plain biscuit.
~ Bill Bryson
Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.
~ J.R. Ward
She had been pure in the manner of a crystal, refracting the light, and life around her improved, enlivened, colored with her grace. Shit. He was such a sap.
~ J.R. Ward
The state man's threat to steal her family enlivened her as if doused by ice water. The leaden fatigue of her despair evaporated. Something inside her unlocked.
~ Chris Offutt