Quotes about Vehement

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

I have often discovered how profitable it is to give sorrow an ethical expression, not to erase the aesthetic factor in sorrow but to master it ethically. As long as sorrow is quiet and humble, I do not fear it; if it becomes vehement and passionate, sophistical so that it deludes me into despondency, I arise, I brook no rebellion, I will have nothing in the world cheat me of what I have from God's hand as a gift of grace. I do not chase sorrow away, do not try to forget it, I repent.

The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.