To an old father,
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. Euripides
Quotes for All
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. Euripides
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic. Ernie Harwell
Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines? Ellen Terry
I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited. Elizabeth Lesser
I think there’s nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith— any religion. Elizabeth Vargas
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with. Edward Alsworth Ross
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche
Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Friedrich Nietzsche
I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It’s demeaning. Frank Gehry
There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There’s no single answer – not even a single starting point. Even the ‘teachers’ … don’t offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas. Frances Moore LappĂ©