Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Virginia Woolf

to teach without zest is a crime.

W. Somerset Maugham

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

Laurence Olivier

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

Henry Van Dyke

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

David Riesman

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Barbara Kingsolver

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

Sarah Palin

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

Robin Williams

I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.

Will Smith

My God, my higher power, it's mine and mine alone. I create my connection, and I decide what my connection is going to be.

Wayne Dyer

With our divine connection we are always in touch with the solutions we are seeking.

Virginia Woolf

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

Zadie Smith

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Alan Cohen

You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

Mark Wahlberg

I like to do projects I feel some connection to.

Philip Emeagwali

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.