Lively Quotes

• Life is a lively process of becoming.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life, Inspire, Becoming

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• I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Cute, Believe

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.8, Bantam

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• A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

  Theodore Roethke

  Inspirational, Waiting, Spirit

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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• If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Color, Rainbow

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• The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

  Blake Lively

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

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• I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Aquariums, Two

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• There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

  Marquis de Sade

  Pain, Hype, Kinky

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• Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

  Hu Jintao

  Keys, Diversity, World

  Hu Jintao's Speech to Federal Parliament, www.smh.com.au. October 24, 2003.

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• For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

  James Boswell

  Thinking, May, Innocence

  James Boswell (1807). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.403

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• Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

  Richard Aldington

  Military, Responsibility, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6

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• You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Quality, Faults, Want

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• Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Romantic, Needs

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• A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

  Marguerite de Angeli

  Beautiful, Strong, Lying

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• The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Different, Tables, Dinner

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• One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Life, Color, Design

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.

  Raymond Moody

  Attitude, Humor, Long

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• The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, People, Democracy

  First Presidential Prime Time Press Conference, delivered 9 February 2009

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• I love being at home and cooking and baking.

  Blake Lively

  Home, Love Is, Cooking

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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  "The Nice And The Good".

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• Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Wish, Forget

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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• What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.

  Margaret Craven

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself.

  Blake Lively

  Inspire, Enthusiasm, Ifs

  "Blake Lively: Savage Blonde". Interview with Nina Garcia, www.marieclaire.com. June 11, 2012.

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• The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Women, Philosophical

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• I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Way To Live, Proud, Public Service

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• Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Husband

  "The Canterbury tales: translated into modern English prose".

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