#zealous

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#women #zealousness #humor

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. ↗

— William Shenstone

#displaying #ever #grounds #judicious #men

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom. ↗

— Isabelle Eberhardt

#zealousness #beauty

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. ↗

— Larry Bird

#conclusion #course #day #directions #discard

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. ↗

— Fred Frith

#certain #changed #exactly #friends #i

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#zealousness #faith

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#democracy #every #filibuster #laws #most

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#revelation #zeal #zealous #art

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. ↗

— Paul Begala

#against #assaults #attacks #blind #blind eye

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#country #desert #first #oasis #parasite