#ardent

My father was an ardent socialist for many years. ↗

— Leon Askin

#father #many #socialist #years

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. ↗

— Walter Pater

#age #ardent #art #century #consecrated

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not. ↗

— David Attenborough

#ardent #does #i #i am #know

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#game #go #happens #hometown #matter

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. ↗

— Diogenes

#former #friends #good #good friends #him

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #desire #divine #enjoy #every

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

— Georg Brandes

#became #dancer #good #i #never

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#ardent #break #make #pieces #self-will

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#ally #another #ardent #conversations #disagree