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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage — Thomas Jefferson

He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways. — Daphne Du Maurier

A secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal. — Thomas Mann

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return. — Alfred Capus

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction. — Sarah Josepha Hale

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers. — Kay Redfield Jamison

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer. — Georg Brandes

It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends. — Joe Conason

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. — Elizabeth Aston

ardent persistence in devotion, — David Bentley Hart

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel. — Steven Spielberg

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration. — Jean Dubuffet

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect. — Thomas Merton

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was. — Annie Lennox

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am the one rich thing that morn
Leaves for the ardent noon to win;
Grasp me not, I have a thorn,
But bend and take my being in. — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government. — George Washington

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them. — Amy Tan

High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy. — Dante Alighieri

Her quietude was not weakness; it was an ardent watchfulness that would be replaced by a roar when required. — Marie Benedict

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert. — Brendon Burchard

For every sacrifice, there's a reward. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Everything ungirt, artless, ardent, urgent about Louie was to the fore: all over herself she gave the impression of twisted stockings. — Elizabeth Bowen

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year. — Emily Dickinson

They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they. — Thomas Hardy

Racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don — Arthur Conan Doyle

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds. — John Keats

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera. — William Maxwell

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy. — Charles Williams

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not. — David Attenborough

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture. — Sam Abell

is my very ardent desire to be permitted to pay my addresses to you — Georgette Heyer

Many great things have been accomplished by the careful combination of keen minds and ardent spirits. — G.D. Falksen

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. — E. O. Wilson

However, I have an enormous desire to change his way of life and try to re-educate him with the ingredient called ardent affection.~Emily — Pet Torres

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast. — May Sarton

My father was an ardent socialist for many years. — Leon Askin

I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances. — Thomas Mulcair

Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. — Michel De Montaigne

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. — Walter Savage Landor

Two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience — Thomas Hardy

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers. — Henry Petroski

I'm here now, I'm inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating. — Adi Shankar

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded. — Norman Douglas

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated. — Alexandre Dumas

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. — Gary Hamel

A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about. — Celeste Bradley

As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect. — Carole Maso

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one. — Rumi

Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great friends that are NASCAR team owners. — Mitt Romney

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham

I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes. — Nina Jacobson

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger. — Rene Descartes

Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead. — Charles Dickens

I'm an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets. — Mike Oldfield

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. — Robert Benchley

In truth, his most ardent fantasy was to hear her saying the three words he had repeated so often already. I love you. — Cristiane Serruya

Sometimes sassy, a little bit nasty but always classy. — The Ardent Rose

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! — Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. — Richard Cecil

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. — Barack Obama

Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as God, I have the same God as the saint. — Ridgely Torrence

The South, which is peopled with ardent and irascible beings, is becoming more irritated and alarmed. — Alexis De Tocqueville

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. — Saint Francis De Sales

The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples. — Pablo Neruda

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. — Bayard Taylor

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong. — Theodore Bikel

death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive! — Anne Fortier

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness. — Charles Dickens

I'm an ardent American Football fan. — Don King

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. — Walter Scott

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits? — Thomas Jefferson

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. — Diogenes

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. — Richard Steele

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. — Alphonsus Liguori

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. — Vittorio Alfieri

Celerity is tardiness when ardent desire urges. — Publilius Syrus

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend. — Mason Cooley

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. — Mikhail Bakunin