Best Vehement Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.”

Careful Vehemence Vehement

Book:Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales

Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales

“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”

Found Intellectual Capacity Connections Passionate Vehement

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.”

Desire Passion Sex Effects Produce Deserve Fairs Praise Excellent Admiration Vehement

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel a great irritation you must hold your breath; if a sneeze still insists upon making its way you must oppose it keeping your teeth grinding together; if the violence of the pulse breaks some blood-vessel you must break the blood-vessel -- but not sneeze.”

Ifs Way Feels Stills Together Break Violence Blood Cold Breaths Teeth Noses Vessel Pulse Irritation Vehement Membranes Blood Vessels

Book:Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay: Volume 2: Edited by Her Niece

Source: Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay: Volume 2: Edited by Her Niece

“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

“Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.”

Men Causes He Man Expression Weakness Argument Passionate Assertion Vehement

Author:William Chillingworth

“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.”

“In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.”

Hands Spirit Passion Energy Too Much Style Cold All Things Injustice Finished Touched Malice Doing Good Sluggish Vehement

Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

Ifs Way Suffering Loss Virtue Failing Youth Findings Deny Criminals Vehement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

“Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.”

“Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.”

Ifs Writing Action Answers Violence Truth Is Violent Vehement

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Eloquence is vehement simplicity.”

Simplicity Eloquence Vehement

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: To which is Prefixed a View of His Character

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: To which is Prefixed a View of His Character

“In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.”

Knows Men Heart Moving Song Force Praise Zeal Ardent Invoke Praise God Vehement

Author:John Calvin

“We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.”

Literature Diversity Social Justice Precise Vehement

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.”

Men Self Christ All Things Righteousness Savior Gross Complacency Reception Self Righteous Self Sufficiency Self Righteousness Sufficiency Transgression Vehement

Author:Alexander MacLaren

“The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.”

Ifs Looks Persons Whole Evil White Results Situation Failing Minutes Circumstances Bitter Look Up Tempted Agonizing Vehement Racial Equality

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Michelle Obama kind of has two identities. In private, she is actually often much more vehement than her husband about Republican opposition. It was very hard to get sources to put it on the record, but they would describe the way she talked about Republicans and opposition in private. And, you know, her remarks were scorching. The level of heat that she can give off in these conversations is often much greater than what Barack Obama does.”

Knows Way Giving Kind Doe Two Hard Levels Records Greater Identity Source Republican Husband Conversation Barack Heat Opposition Remarks Vehement Scorching

Author:Jodi Kantor

“Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.”

Stills Shows Responsibility Tears Patient Resistance Cures Awkward Cradle Therapeutic Vehement

Author:Alfred Adler

“God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.”

Knows Want Voice Wonder Glory Tricks Burning Bags Testament God Knows Fiery Wands Impulsive Matured Vehement Burning Bush Carnies

Author:Nick Cave

“[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.”

People Want Writing Book Ideas Wanted Next Sin Known Couple Terrible Response Aids Concentration Camps Homosexual Shocked Going To Work Old Friends Concentration Camp Saddened Vehement

Author:Tracy Hickman

“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”

Heart Strong Love Is Arms Jace Seals Vehement Clary And Jace Love Is Strong

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.”

Source: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature

“I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.”

Feels Wells Earth My Own Secret Silence Alive Mines Essence Traps Vehement

Author:Anais Nin

“Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.”

Source: Between the Bridge and the River

“I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)”

“I love your silences, they are like mine.”

Silence Mines Vehement

Author:Anais Nin

“You!” she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)”

Heart Said Expression Fingers Als Newts Vehement Heart Pounding

Author:Kim Harrison

“Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.”

Believe Doe Jesus Prayer Urgency Pleading Vehement

Book:Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry

Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry

“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”

Causes Weak Philosophical Speakers Orators Vehement

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.”