Passion Quotes
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
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu
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
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.De La Rochefoucauld.
Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
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
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.La Rochefoucauld
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
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
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
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
There is only one universal passion fear.George Bernard Shaw
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.William Wharton
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
The worst sin - Perhaps the only sin - Passion can commit, is to be joyless.Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.Ice T, The Ice Opinion
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
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
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
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.Bette Davis
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.La Rochefoucauld
Compassion is the basis of all morality.Arthur Schopenhaue
