Quotes of: Ardor Keyword

A fire will sear and the sun burn yet more, but neither can match the ardor of a man's heart.

Indonesian

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor.

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

Sextus Propertius

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

Red Rover, Red Rover, send Ardor right over," Eliza said. They laughed. The asteroid was a little bigger now, brighter, and still they went on laughing. Laughing in the face of what they couldn't predict or change or control. Would it be fire and bri...

We All Looked Up

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Emile M. Cioran

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition, read the dry sardonic remarks of cynical philosoph...

A Defense of Ardor: Essays

But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a...

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor.

Malak El Halabi

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Charles Brenton Huggins

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Julia Ward Howe

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

E.M.Bounds

Well written novels are penned by authors who have a unique and personal ardor for their story. They fabricate the phrases of their mind into a voice and thus a character is born.

Emily Flim

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence

Stay

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

Sun Tzu