Best Irrepressible Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

“The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.”

Action Power Destructive Appetite Humankind Irrepressible

Book:The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution

Source: The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution

“The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.”

Law Literature Critics Servant Giver Irrepressible Hankering

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.”

Turns Girl Remarkable Handful Irrepressible

Author:Francine Prose

“Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled store of gold, not its giant factories, not its surpassing railroads, not its unprecedented volume of cheap power. Is not its most priceless asset the character of its people, their indomitable self-confidence, their transcendent vision, their sleepless initiative and, perhaps above all, their inherent, irrepressible optimism?”

“What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.”

Humans Individual Born Technology Taken Clear Pure Humble Assumption Initiative Emergencies Measurement Progression Deductions Irrepressible

Book:Earth, Inc.

Source: Earth, Inc.

“The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.”

Ifs Long Art Made Enough Seems Spirit Conversation Picks Claims Legacy Keyboards Pianist Good Conversation Irrepressible

Author:Donal Henahan

“I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.”

Needs Writing Wells Kind Song Left My Own Struggle Pops Impulse Devices Restlessness Concise Irrepressible

Author:Andrew Bird

“Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.”

People Advice Importance Enthusiasm Rooted Colleagues Irrepressible

Author:Torill Kove

“The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.”

Ideas Whole House Fronts Baby Amount Activity Department Yards Interiors Enterprising Irrepressible

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.”

Imagination Irrepressible

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!”

Happiness Joy Mental Health Irrepressible

Author:Haidakhan Babaji

“Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure.”

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel

“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”

Certain Heard Fit Eternal Definitions Beloved Classic Conform Freshness Irrepressible

Author:Edith Wharton

“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.”

“I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.”

People Ifs Sometimes Done Faces Certain Natural Crime Regret Lips Committed Harm Catastrophe Revolver Irrepressible

Author:Anais Nin

“Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.”

“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”

World Littles I Can Desire Assured Famous Inspirational Desire To Live Irrepressible

Book:The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path

Source: The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path

“You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.”

Inspirational Motivational Running Wall Determine Optimistic Persistent Inspirational Success Tenacious Irrepressible

Author:Steve Ballmer

“It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.”

Giving Character Water Steps Sea Cost Thousand Rain Garden Rivers Stones Monsters Labour Peculiar Horns Rail Ivy Spray Channeling Overflow Dripping Terrace Irrepressible

Author:Edith Wharton

“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”

Certain Fit Eternal Definitions Classic Conform Freshness Irrepressible

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.”

Ifs Science Force Nature Natural Technology Our Lives Progress Trouble Submit Attempting Forces Of Nature Pressured Irrepressible

Book:Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session

Source: Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session

“It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement”

Desire Return Absolutes Nostalgia Nostalgic Repetitive Homesickness Archives Commencement Irrepressible

Book:Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression

Source: Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression

“Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.”