Quotes of: Vehement Keyword

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Eric Hoffer

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

J. Paul Getty

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

Look Back in Anger

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

Dan Fogelberg

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Courage is vehemently contagious, but it must be started by someone who brought it with him.

D William Manley

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

The Ministry of Fear

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

P. J. O'Rourke

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

James Surowiecki

I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you vehemently disagree with them, well, you can recognise it's an argument and respond.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.

Glenn Greenwald

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.

Dwight Yoakam

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

Edmund White

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

Richard Savage

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.

White is for Witching

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Alfred Adler

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement...

War and Peace

Let me go!” she growls. “No.” “Let me fucking go, Colton.” Her voice is tiny, scared, vulnerable, and vehement. “You let go.” “Why?” A hitch in her voice. “Because holding on to it is killing you.

Falling into You

I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehementl...

Kyrsten Sinema

Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is good for teachers' unions is of more importance to the Left than what is good for blacks. Who, then, is racist? By their own admission, and by the polici...

Dennis Prager