Top 377 Lively Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
TV is providing such amazing possibilities - you have such lively characters, fantastic stories and ambiguous messages, and viewers feel very satisfied.
I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)
Something that I've always been. Always lively. I don't want to be dull.
I like the way I feel when I'm healthy; it makes me feel lively.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.
We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
Look, there's no place and no point in public life, in any life, for a lot of the things Scott Lively says and believes.
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something!
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
He's never portrayed as being funny. He was a very funny, happy, lively person. Fun to be around and exciting. He was my hero.
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.
I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.
After our first week of filming 'Deadpool 2,' Blake Lively got me a candle. It smells really good, and it said, 'To Firefist' on it.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.
The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.
Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation.
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.
The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon
There is a part of me which is aggressive and demure, the other side being bright, sexy and lively.
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.
I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.
I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.
Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.
Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.
It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.
A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
