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  • Exuberance is beauty. -- William Blake
  • Exuberance is better than taste. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto. -- John Chafee
  • Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. -- Anne Sexton
  • Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. -- David Mamet
  • I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. -- Bob Black
  • I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice. -- Elia Kazan
  • I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. -- Robert Wyatt
  • Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty. -- William Blake
  • Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Exuberance is Beauty." "If a thing loves, it is infinite." "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." "The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. -- William Blake
  • A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? -- Alan Greenspan
  • The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development. -- Lee Kuan Yew
  • I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful. -- Isaac Mizrahi
  • Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. -- Yoko Ono
  • The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance. -- Annie Dillard
  • 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
  • You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world -- Sheilah Graham Westbrook
  • You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. -- Sheilah Graham
  • A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. -- Bill Dedman
  • It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young. -- Frederick William Faber
  • Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power. -- Robert Frost
  • 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
  • What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics. -- Nouriel Roubini
  • As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. -- Lewis Thomas
  • It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance. -- Charlie Trotter
  • Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit. -- Joan Nestle
  • Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat. -- Charlie Chaplin
  • You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it. -- Brian Morton
  • Appreciate youthful exuberance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance. -- Mary Oliver
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  • I am shocked and slightly perturbed by his exuberance and quick wit. Knock Knock Channel 4 -- Scott Capurro
  • In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. -- Robert Reich
  • Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance. -- Corrie Ten Boom
  • Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire. -- Georges Bataille
  • Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve. -- Susan Sontag
  • What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility. -- William McDonough
  • Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance. -- Alan Lightman
  • But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head." -- Jennifer Haigh
  • And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison. -- Renzo Novatore
  • We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity. -- Douglas Cardinal
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  • When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom. -- David Ogilvy
  • There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances. -- Lloyd Alexander
  • The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books. -- Christopher Morley
  • In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action. -- Anais Nin
  • Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages. -- Gail Caldwell
  • The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision. -- Dave Bidini
  • There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure. -- David Riesman
  • A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. -- John Grogan
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