Quotes of Refreshing - somelinesforyou

“ Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. ”

- Barbara Walters

“ A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ”

- Maurice Maeterlinck

“ To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. ”

- George Steiner

“ What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action. ”

- Henry Miller

“ Wouldn't it be an exhilarating tonic for the soul to take a moment to appreciate the simple, good things in life which are so bountiful...? ”

- Unknown

“ What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. ”

- Jean Anouilh

“ There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Every soul is a melody which needs renewing. ”

- Stéphane Mallarmé

“ Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries. ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. ”

- Mason Cooley

“ Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. ”

- Lynda Barry

“ We are not debating stimulating the economy. We are eviscerating the Bush tax cut. ”

- Robert Bennett

“ The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. ”

- Ray L. Wilbur

“ Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next. ”

- John Donne

“ Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ”

- Henry Miller

“ An appreciative listener is always stimulating. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ”

- Ellen Glasgow

“ For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfaction. ”

- Käthe Kollwitz

“ Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Enemies are so stimulating. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ It's refreshing to see a young player with that kind of makeup. This game needs more Nomars. ”

- Paul Molitor

“ Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it… ”

- William James

“ W.C. Fields was completely wrong, because with children, they have a spontaneity, they have a purity, they have a morality and they have an ethical approach to things and a curiosity that is utterly, utterly refreshing and reminds me of my first days in the theater and reminds me of why I'm an actor in the first place… ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ The Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism. ”

- Albert Bandura
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