Ardent Quotations

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football.

Working toward this goal of helping local businesses grow, I have been an ardent supporter of reducing the tax burden.

What we did, even the most ardent fan didn't expect from us this year. (The players) can't possibly understand what they've accomplished.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Oh! what are years? A ripe three score and tenHold often less of life, in its best sense,Than just a twelvemonth lived by other men,Whose high-strung souls are ardent and intense.

Give me the old enthusiasms back,Give me the ardent longings that I lack, --The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth,The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . .

Give me the old enthusiasms back, Give me the ardent longings that I lack, -- The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth, The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . .

Gold continues to defy the bears, skeptics and even ardent bulls all of whom continue to pay little or no attention to one of the most powerful factors driving the secular bull market.

I said to Mr. Bowles, 'That would be like me saying to you that the only reason that you were an ardent supporter of fast track is because you're a very wealthy man with a very large stock portfolio and you're making money, tons of money, because of these trade policies,

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

The real point is not that the court is conservative, but that the spectrum of views on the court today represents a particular range, from ardent conservative to central or moderate liberal. There's something to be said for a court of centrists, but that's not what we have. One end of the spectrum is represented, and not the other.

Being a quaker town, where people were ardent abolitionists, but were still enmeshed in the confederacy, that kind of moral decision ... the people in that town were the inspiration.

There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

As ardent believers in the power of market competition, we strongly support the idea of a dual-listing, and are proud to be among this initial group of market innovators, ... Our hope is that as more companies opt for dual-listing, we will experience a healthy increased competition in our trading markets, resulting in innovative applications of technology, heightened transparency, and improved trading outcomes for all investors.

For him not to even break (50 percent), not to even approach it, says all you need to say. In five 'red' states that have been ardent supporters of Bush, he can't even approach 50 percent.

Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.

I know many men who are misanthropes, and profess to look down with disdain on their species. My creed is of an opposite character. All that we observe that is best and most excellent in the intellectual world, is man: and it is easy to perceive in many cases, that the believer in mysteries does little more, than dress up his deity in the choicest of human attributes and qualifications. I have lived among, and I feel an ardent interest in and love for, my brethren of mankind. This sentiment, which I regard with complacency in my own breast, I would gladly cherish in others.

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

I believe it came off his chest or his hand, but I don't care. We were terrific today - even the most ardent Norwich fan would admit we deserved to win - and I was worried we wouldn't get the result we deserved.

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

It is my most ardent desire, not only to soften the inevitable calamities of war, but even to introduce on every occasion as great a share of tenderness and humanity, as can possibly be exercised in a state of hostility

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

The distance that the dead have gone/ Does not at first appear --/ Their coming back seems possible/ For many an ardent year.