Quotes About Alacrity

#1. They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

Josephus

#2. Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.

Samuel Johnson

#3. It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

Daniel S. Greenberg

#4. There could not be an objection. There could be only a most proper alacrity, a most obliging compliance for public view, and smiled reined in and spirits dancing in private rapture

Jane Austen

#5. I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

William Shakespeare

#7. He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#10. Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart.

Mark Twain

#11. I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#12. A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

Ann Zwinger

#13. Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#14. Wallets can establish connections and change opinions. Things that fall apart can be glued back by money with astonishing alacrity.

Robert Walser

#15. Move, Kit. I want to get a closer look at that bust."

To Kit, bust only meant one thing, but since the only breasts in the room belonged to Ty's sister, he stepped aside with alacrity.

Cassandra Clare

#16. I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

George Eliot

#17. Volnaka ... did a remarkable job of getting anyone drunk with alacrity. It also worked well as a combustible in lamps, as paint remover, was a marvelous antiseptic and was singularly effective at erasing any memory of ever having imbibed it

J.R. Hardesty

#18. If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

Samuel Johnson

#19. Nevertheless, he had offered her a home under his own roof, which Lavinia accepted with the alacrity of a woman who had spent the ten years of her married life in the town of Poughkeepsie.

Henry James

#20. Personally, I find the idea that women are supposed to "love" shopping bizarre - nearly every woman I know wants to cry after 45 minutes of trawling the high street looking for a shirt and hits the gin with alacrity upon the sad occasions when jeans have to be found.

Caitlin Moran

#21. In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.

Elias James Corey

#22. Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

Alexander Pope

#23. Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

Robert D. Hare

#24. Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block.

John Steinbeck

#25. Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.

Tupac Shakur

#26. The height of human desire is what wins, whether it's on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.

Woody Hayes

#27. For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.

Charles Duhigg

#28. First, I started taking dance classes, and then I started taking singing lessons. Then my mom put me into a year-round theatre program where I did seven shows.

Lilla Crawford

#29. How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been.

Beth Moore

#30. The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.

Brandy Norwood

#31. When one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments.

Steven Johnson

#32. For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

Margaret Atwood

#33. Remember that knowledge alone is not power. Only knowledge plus action is power.

Robert Palasciano

#34. Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!

Deyth Banger

#35. God sees hearts as we see faces.

George Herbert

#36. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg