Passion Quotes
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - How passionately I hate them.Albert Einstein
cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.Ice T, The Ice Opinion
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
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
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.Niccolo Machiavelli
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy - Turvy.Marguerite de Valois
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 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
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.Albert Schweitze
Judgement, not passion should prevail.Epicharmus
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.Rose Dorothy Franken
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
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
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.C. C. Colton
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
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy
Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.Matt Groening
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.La Rochefoucauld
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
