The strongest passion is fear.

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

— David Easton

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is…

— John Burns

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

“THE ESSENCE OF YOUR DESIRE IS A FEELING”

— Danielle LaPorte

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

— Jean Rostand

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…

— Victor Hugo

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

— John Steinbeck

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

— John Dewey

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner

I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I…

— Martin Freeman

Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…

— Alice Sebold

“from THE DEVIL YOU KNOW : She wanted him too. He could see it in the rapid rise of her breasts. He could smell…

— Emery Lee