Exuberance Quotes
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that who can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself.
benjamin disraeli— On William Ewart Gladstone at a banquet in Riding School, Knightsbridge (27 July 1878), quoted in The Times (29 July 1879) and again cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 149.
A sophistical rhetoricianinebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— 1878 Of Gladstone. Speech reported in The Times, 29 Jul.
The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.
john steinbeck— Pt. 2 (Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962))
Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.
georges bataille— p. xxvii (On Nietzsche (1945))
The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
john galsworthy— The Man of Property (1906) Volume I of The Forsyte Saga
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.
Margaret Mead— Radio excerpt reproduced by Voice of America (17 January 2010)
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli, speech at the Riding School, London (July 27, 1878) (of Gladstone).
Ialwayssay that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.
Robert Hamer— 1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets (with John Dighton).
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
Alan Greenspan— Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., December 5, 1996 [2]
But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.
Herman Melville— Ch. 2 (Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891))
