quotes about Vehemence
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Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
-- Anais Nin -
Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?
-- Elaine DundySource : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.80, New York Review of Books
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I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
-- Ellen Barkin -
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To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.
-- Hector BerliozSource : Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”
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Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
-- Homer -
With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.
-- Hugh Mackay -
The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.
-- John Dryden -
Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.
-- Mark PosterSource : Mark Poster (1978). “Critical Theory of the Family”, New York : Seabury Press
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The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that of the serial bully
-- Tim Field -
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.
-- William Benton Clulow -