Quotes about passion
passion years people
Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs. Bernie Mac
passion connections letters
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure. Edward Gibbon
passion perfect saving
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation is suited to the emergencies of his policy or passion; and all contradiction is removed by the saving maxim that any text of Scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage.
passion ideas giving
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.
passion men creatures
Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.
passion names history
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed that enjoyment the most pleasing to their ear. They deserved, they assumed, they maintained the honourable epithet of Franks or Freemen; which concealed, though it did not extinguish, the peculiar names of the several states of the confederacy.
passion years history
The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. At the age of twelve years, he embraced the rigid system of the Stoics, which taught him to submit his body to his mind, his passions to his reason; to consider virtue as the only good, vice as the only evil, all things external as things indifferent.
passion bones feds
He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied. Edith Wharton
passion perfect roller-coaster
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. David Horowitz
passion political healthy
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.
passion telling
She has a passion for telling the story.
passion heart satisfaction
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose. Edgar Allan Poe
passion reflection effort
And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.
passion impatient plunge
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.
passion poetry purpose
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
passion speak melancholy
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. Edward Abbey
passion beer men
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.
passion men soul
A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.
passion men law
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual. Aristotle
passion tragedy ends
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
passion heart men
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
passion opposites soul
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
passion men self
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.
passion human-nature reason
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
passion soul kind
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
passion may habit
Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love. Elizabeth Bowen
passion roots clothes
Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.
passion vanity depth
The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.
passion literature minors
We are minor in everything but our passions.
passionate
Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with. Deepak Chopra
passion thinking people
The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing. Dominic Monaghan
passion faces screens
You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen. Ed Westwick
passion people
People like passion in politics. Ed Gillespie