There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
Quotes about vehement (16 Quotes)
They have a very vocal tiny minority of American citizens who overwhelm the majority because they are so vocal and they're so vehement. So politicians are afraid of them,
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works 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.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
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.
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.
O you who believe do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you they love what distresses you vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still indeed, We have made the communications clear to you, if you will understand.
Handsome and well shaped, stout hearted, vehement, eager, cruel in war, zealous in attack, little fearing death not revengeful but fickle, presumptuous, rash, boastful deceitful very suspicious, especially of strangers.
A large majority of people in Israel, including his most vehement opponents, knew there was someone they could count on...that any catastrophe could occur, the country was led by someone who was capable of dealing with it.
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.
The pattern is oft-repeated One or more parents suspect drug use, the children are vehement in their denial. Proof Positive allows parents to discover the truth before a direct confrontation.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.