Fervor Quotes

“Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen’s Rising

“Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thousand warriors. He rushes into the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. There is more than mere strength—there seems as if the whole soul and spirit of the champion were given to every blow which he deals upon his enemies. God assoilzie him of the sin of bloodshed! It is fearful, yet magnificent, to behold how the arm and heart of one man can triumph over hundreds.”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Que eu possa esconder-te no abraço do meu coração fervoroso.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Que eu possa acariciar o corpo do teu ardente desejo
e despertar o fervor latente do teu ser maior.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies.”
― Simon Blackburn, Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love

“For seven months, every single day, I went to the hole,’ he told the crowds who gathered to hear him. ‘I lost my marriage—’ always murmurs at this point—‘I lost my career, I lost my home, but that’s nothing.’ A pause. ‘My brother—my only brother—lost his life.’ Sometimes people would break into inadvertent applause at this, which was awkward. Sean learned to lower his eyes until it stopped.”
― Amy Waldman, The Submission

“Religious fervor breeds obsessive actions. Whether these actions are rational or irrational depends of your perspective.”
― Kathy Reichs, Cross Bones

“Meaning is not found in passivity. You must track it down with fervent pursuit and fierce endurance. Meaning must be earned.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Enquanto você estiver aqui, desejo viver pois as ausências me trituram mas a sua presença me preenche — ele disse. — Saiba que, se eu estivesse sozinho, apelaria para as potências da morte e lhes diria: Não as temo. Mas não estou sozinho e, se a vida oferece apenas uma hora de fervor, quero que a vivamos juntos.”
― Muriel Barbery, Une heure de ferveur

“Entrei na era dos lutos e, de agora em diante, são meus mortos que dão a esses edifícios e esses túmulos seu perfume de fervor.”
― Muriel Barbery, Une heure de ferveur