Passion Quotes
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, 1966
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.George Sand
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.Anthony Powell
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.Jean de La Fontaine
Judgement, not passion should prevail.Epicharmus
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.Honore de Balzac
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
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.Denis Diderot
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.H. L. Mencken
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.Abraham Joshua Heschel
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.Paul Johannes Tillich
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
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
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
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.Rose Dorothy Franken
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.Seneca
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
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.Cicero
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.Alexander Pope
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
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
