Passion Quotes
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
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.Paul Eldridge
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of Ten Best.H. Allen Smith
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.Jean de La Fontaine
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
Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.Amanda Medinge
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.Alexander Hamilton
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
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude A. Helvetius
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
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.S? ren Kierkegaard
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
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.
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
He who feels no compassion will become insane.Hasidic Saying
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.Bernard M. Baruch
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
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.Anthony Powell
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.Alexander Pope
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
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.Anonymous
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
