Quotes about passion
passion expression energy
It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies? Marilyn French
passion dark sides
If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion. Nicole Kidman
passion ifs
I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it.
passion opportunity acting
Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me. Nick Jonas
passion people links
If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature. Nalini Nadkarni
passion love-life ideas
But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion. P. G. Wodehouse
passion way reason
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse. Ovid
passion reason
What is reason now was passion heretofore.
passion wealth
The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
passion men lifetime
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. Paul Newman
passion sacred-feminine masculine
When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves. Matthew Fox
passion long dying
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth. Marya Mannes
passion mind faces
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring. Mary Wortley Montagu
passion thoughtful thinking
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted. Mary Wollstonecraft
passion love-is doctors
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking. Marsilio Ficino
passion dancer technique
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. Martha Graham
passion thinking people
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward... Martha Beck
passion dangerous-world choices
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
passion wind tree
Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.
passion blood leaving
by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.
passionate littles reason
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read. Paul Auster
passion my-passion judiciary
Judiciary is where my passion is. Patrick Leahy
passion people achievement
All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed Pat Cash
passion long return
She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope. Pat Conroy
passion suffering enough
Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.
passion wicked divine
This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine. Julia Quinn
passion people one-day
You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it. Judd Apatow
passion
From my earliest days I had a passion for science. Joseph Rotblat
passion opportunity thinking
I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in the White House, so she knows the drill. I am hopeful that she will continue to support minorities and create better opportunities. Nia Long
passion past men
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results. Niccolo Machiavelli
passion past cities
If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
passion men law
Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.
passion confusion understanding
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.