Eager Quotes

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. (Anton Chekhov)
Since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it. View quote
William Saroyan
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search. View quote
John Templeton
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? View quote
Richard Dawkins
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. View quote
Joseph Conrad
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. View quote
William Ellery Channing
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. View quote
James Baldwin
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. View quote
Carl Sagan
Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment, for even the very wise cannot see all ends. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies. View quote
Iris Chang
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
Myron reflected that there are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. View quote
Harry Houdini
If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon. View quote
Robert Jordan
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion. View quote
Wallace Stevens
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area. (Gore Vidal)
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. View quote
Henry James
His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse. View quote
Emil Cioran
The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith. View quote
William Saroyan
Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation. View quote
Dale Carnegie