Passion Quotes
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - As the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. Maxims.La Rochefoucauld
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.Rufus Choate
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.Buddha
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.Bernard M. Baruch
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.Azel Backus
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.Honore de Balzac
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.Jean de La Fontaine
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.Henry Ward Beeche
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Orson Welles
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.Denis Diderot
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.Fawn M. Brodie
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.Blessing Irish
There is only one universal passion fear.George Bernard Shaw
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.Rose Dorothy Franken
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.Rita Mae Brown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.C. C. Colton
