Passion Quotes
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.Epictetus
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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
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, The Lonely Life, 1962
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
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
Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.Anonymous
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 most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.H. L. Mencken
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.Berenson
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
When the habitually even - Tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!Seen on a bumper sticke
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.Simone Weil
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.Niccolo Machiavelli
It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.Aristotle
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
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
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.Albert Schweitze
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
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.John Adams
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.John Quincy Adams
Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.Anne McCaffrey
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
