Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?” — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever… — Sunidhi Chauhan Copy Share Image
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible." ("I have… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I’d love to be tried out,’ I said, with a suggestive smile. ‘One should always explore something, before one goes in deeper.’… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Facebook is about seeing what your friend is doing. Twitter, you follow different people. Flipboard is about passions and interests and topics,… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his… — Horace Copy Share Image
My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem,… — Shai Agassi Copy Share Image
“Here… our failures are known to every Tom Dick and Harry while our successes fall only on deaf ears. It’s death, hostile… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
![“J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible." ("I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.") [Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e16/george-sand-1753_passion_j-ai-un-but-une-t-che-disons-le-mot-une_995247.jpg)
![“[L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d5f/anonymous-1_bad-advice_l-et-us-talk-about-the-unholy-vice-of-se_2695173.jpg)
