Quotes about pass
passion wind fire
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
passion blood different
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
passion vanity sometimes
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
passion pride envy
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
passion duration our-lives
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
passion honor peers
No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.
passion greed missing
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
passion men wisest-man
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
passion unfortunate esteem
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
passion emotional feelings
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
passion design soul
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
passion lovers
In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.
passion blow flames
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
passion age youth
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
passion men giving
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
passion men desire
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
passion men envy
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
passion men thinking
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.
passion soul remains
When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.
passion virtue masters
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
passion contrary
The passions often engender their contraries.
passion men wisest-man
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
passion violent
Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
passion weakness sometimes
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
passion liberty sound
If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty. Horace Walpole
passport
Identity. Do you need a passport to know who you are?
passes
I'd take her over Ben. She can make passes at me any day. Nate Washington
pass prepared torch
I am prepared to pass the torch to new leadership, Tom Bradley
passionate stories
I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference. Aaron Huey
passed
How many opportunities have to be passed up? Tom Jones
passion doctors personality
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient. Hunter S. Thompson
passion soul brain
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.
passion men cities
A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason Hugo Grotius