Passion Quotes
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
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.Eric Hoffe
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
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.Amanda Medinge
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
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
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.George Santayana
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.Boris Pasternak
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html
Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.Anonymous
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - - How passionately I hate them!Albert Einstein
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
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
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.Rose Dorothy Franken
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama
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
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.Rita Mae Brown
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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 compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!
