Quotes About Irrepressible

#1. 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.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#3. 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.

Donal Henahan

#4. Man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.

Arthur Koestler

#5. Then too there was the irrepressible librarian in her who could not stand by and watch a human being in distress without leaping to her aid, whether that person could not find the coin slot on the copier or was on the brink of domestic destruction.

Jennifer Tseng

#6. 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.

Torill Kove

#7. 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.

Andrew Bird

#8. I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.

Jennifer Haigh

#10. Imagination ... is the irrepressible revolutionist.

Wallace Stevens

#11. Yes, I suppose so, answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

Walter Mosley

#13. the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I felt the old, irrepressible ache to know what my point in the world might be.

Sue Monk Kidd

#15. 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.

Steve Ballmer

#16. It was the irrepressible Twi'lek who finally said what they were all thinking but didn't have the courage to bring up. You know you both naked, right?

Drew Karpyshyn

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

Francine Prose

#18. It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

Kara Walker

#19. Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

Annie Dillard

#20. 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.

Hyman Rickover

#21. Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

Josh Fox

#22. Silence can be as irrepressible as laughter. And it can accumulate, like weightless snowflakes. It can collapse a ceiling. "I'm not sure," Julia said. Jacob

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. 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.

Mark Twain

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

Storm Jameson

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

Barbara Tuchman

#26. When a country is largely owned by foreigners, there is a recurrent and almost irrepressible social demand for expropriation.

Anonymous

#27. He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.

Leo Tolstoy

#28. From the sacred center of the world streams forth an irrepressible desire to overcome the silence between things. Art, the ever flowing fountain, reveals the secret of life through word and gesture, color and sound. The

Hermann Hesse

#29. Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Sappho

#30. The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

John H. Reagan

#31. 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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#32. Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

The Edge

#33. The young can be very lovely, but the faces of the old can be truly beautiful. Every line and fold, every contour and wrinkle of Sister Monica Joan's fine white skin revealed her character, strength, courage, humanity and irrepressible humour.

Jennifer Worth

#34. 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

Jacques Derrida

#35. In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. His attention felt more like an irrepressible gravitational pull than mere interest.

Blakely Bennett

#37. Love is the name of an irrepressible moment formed inside one complete pulsation of a heart

Munia Khan

#38. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

William H. Seward

#39. Dudjom Rinpoche has said, "The point of patience is to train so that our altruistic attitude is immovable and irrepressible in the face of those who hurt us with their ingratitude and so forth.

Lodro Rinzler

#40. What is good is irrepressible.

Robert A. Giacalone

#41. Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.

Gao Xingjian

#42. No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Barbara Tuchman

#43. It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.

Alistair Cooke

#44. Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Haruki Murakami

#45. For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.

Elliott Abrams

#46. There was something very taking in her face which owed nothing to the excellence of her features: an expression of sweetness, a sparkle of irrepressible fun, an unusually open look, quite devoid of self-consciousness.

Georgette Heyer

#47. 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.

Edith Wharton

#48. An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The

Thomas Hardy

#49. I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Mo Yan