As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not depend ...on their ability to trounce one another. And surely we can find ways of frolicking and being healthy and active together in some joyful, free way that is not an adversary relationship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can ...be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but... whether or not proportionally to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of skull smaller; the outlines of the body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidate ...the pale scholar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right dir...ection. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will write, as in the past, simply for the pleasure of writing, for myself alone, with no thought of money or fame. Apollo at le...ast will be grateful to me, and perhaps at last I will produce something beautiful--for all things make way before the unceasing striving of an energetic sentiment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound. ...I look for good results.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
President Kennedy had a wholesome, widely discussed, and largely deserved reputation for his interest in women.... But no Presiden...t, however young and energetic, could possibly have gotten around to all the ladies in Washington, New York, and Hollywood who made claim to his affections after he died.... Such was the force of Jack Kennedy and the manner of his death that anyone associated with him, even the pretenders, assumed added glamour and interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »