#eager

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#after #approval #control #convinces #cookie

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host. ↗

— Theophrastus

#dinner #eager #his #host #invited

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault. ↗

— John P. Kennedy

#eager #every #hostility #indians #molest

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#also #anyone #capable #eagerly #else

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#better #close #discover #each #eager

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#dating #different #eager #expose #get

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life. ↗

— John Doolittle

#culture #droves #eager #embrace #families

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#experience #gain #how #know #make

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. ↗

— William Godwin

#educate #education #ends #forget #haste

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#countries #eager #for the people #i #i think