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I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.
alexander ovechkin— Ryan Miller, interview in John Vogl (December 4, 2006) "Ovechkin's star eclipsed by few - Briere hit a rare misstep for Capitals' boy wonder", The Buffalo News, p. D7.
He had great zest for life, and a lot of style - he belonged to an age of elegance.
ian carmichael— Anne Reid, BBC News 6 February 2010
Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.
alesha dixon—
I'm not concerned with body building; I'm just trying to make people normal human beings. Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.
joseph pilates— William Miller, Return to Life Through Contrology (1960)
And wisest he in this whole wide landOf hoarding till bent and gray;For all you can hold in your cold, dead handIs what you have given away.. . . . . .He gave with a zest and he gave his best;Give him the best to come.
joaquin miller— Joaquin Miller, Peter Cooper.
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest toall the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.
felix adler— Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
But the ingenious machinery contrived by the Gods for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum which arranges that wisdom to do shall come pari passu with the departure of zest for doing stood in the way of all that.
thomas hardy— Ch. 44. (The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886))
Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.
henry s. haskins— p. 101 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))
What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.
william james— "The Dilemma of Determinism" (1884)
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.
Pauline Kael— "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece," review of The Moon in the Gutter (1983-09-19), p. 48
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
john lancaster spalding— p. 71 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
alan watts— (page 96) (The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966))
And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray; For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand Is what you have given away. . . . . . . He gave with a zest and he gave his best; Give him the best to come.
joaquin miller— Joaquin Miller, Peter Cooper.
It is the nature of man to build the most complicated cage of rules and regulations in which to trap himself, and then, with equal ingenuity and zest, to bend his brain to the problem of wriggling triumphantly out again.
— Bridget Ann Henisch, Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society (1976), p. 41
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.
— Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, "Biology and the State", The Advancement of Science: Occasional Essays & Addresses (1890), 108-9.
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
tobias smollett— Tobias Smollett, Humphrey Clinker.
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. See Horace 413:23.
wilfred owen— 1918 'Dulce et Decorum Est', collected in Poems (published 1920).
