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Tag Name "Zest" (50)

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Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
Ray Bradbury
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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior
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A friend is a beloved mystery dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
Lucy Larcom
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In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
Adam Weishaupt
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
Margaret Mead
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I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.
Alexander Ovechkin
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If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Women add zest to the unlicensed hours.
Allen Thomas
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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
Plato
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.
Brigitte Bardot
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A zest for living must include a willingness to die.
Robert A. Heinlein
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An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.
Christopher Fry
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After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.
Sivananda Radha Saraswati
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The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.
Curt Sachs
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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
Don Marquis
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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.
Wilfred Owen
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Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
William James
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I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.
James M. Barrie
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Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.
John F. Kennedy
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My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.
Joseph Plaskett
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