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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. -- Le Corbusier
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. -- Eric Hoffer
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other. -- Richard Savage
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. -- Alfred Adler
Eloquence is vehement simplicity. -- Richard Cecil
Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. -- William J. Brennan
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them. -- Friedrich Schiller
Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it. -- William Chillingworth
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. -- Joseph Addison
In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal. -- John Calvin
I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it. -- William Shakespeare
God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants. -- Nick Cave
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.. -- Edmund Burke
You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel a great irritation you must hold your breath; if a sneeze still insists upon making its way you must oppose it keeping your teeth grinding together; if the violence of the pulse breaks some blood-vessel you must break the blood-vessel -- but not sneeze. -- Fanny Burney
The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He had been frightened and so he had been vehement. -- Graham Greene
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. -- Oliver Sacks
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Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. -- David Dudley Field II
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician. -- Anthony Trollope
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency. -- Alexander MacLaren
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You!â? she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al) -- Kim Harrison

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