Lively Quotes

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Women, Wise, Wife

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen

Mind, Nothing, Answer

Life is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthur

Life, Process, Becoming

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks

Living, Quiet, Colorful

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt

Best, Another, Off

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Marquis de Sade

Women, Experience, Pain

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
Theodore Roethke

Wait, Again, Once

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
Jinato Hu

Society, Today, Human

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Thoughts, Ideas, Original

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.
David Hume

Alone, Nothing, Able

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown

Disrespect, Authority, Forms

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
Julie Burchill

Book, Index, Arts

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch

Happiness, Busy, Self

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
Rod Stewart

Music, Two, Show

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
George Saunders

Same, Lucky, Generation

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.
Jane Smiley

Genius, Daring, Specific

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.
Stockwell Day

Democracy, Two, System

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
Beverly Cleary

Best, Friend, Person

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
Laura Bush

Funny, Great, Smart

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.
David Talbot

Political, Both, Whether

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell

Good, May, Innocent

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.
Lee H. Hamilton

Life, Live, Proud

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
Bruce Sterling

Great, After, Idea

I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.
Richard H. Davis

Time, Sports, Few

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
Simon Greenleaf

God, Him, Sense

In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
Michael Servetus

Life, Courage, Giving

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.
Richard Wall

Eyes, Often, Admit

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell

Good, May, Among

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
Vanessa Kerry

Different, Everybody, Though

It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.
Richard Schiff

Great, Tough, Difficult

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