Eager

Famous quotes containing the word eager:

    Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
    James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    There was no corn—in the wide market-place
    All loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold;
    They weighed it in small scales—and many a face
    Was fixt in eager horror then; his gold
    The miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold
    Through hunger, bared her scornèd charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of news-writers is easy, they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, in which we and our friends, whether conquering or conquered, did all, and our enemies did nothing.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)