It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children — Jim George Copy Share Image
Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now. — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned. — Maxwell Struthers Burt Copy Share Image
“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey. — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met,… — Philippe Pinel Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?” — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Desire or impassioned liking go with a demanding and ongoing quest, and therefore patience and indulgence are decisive to hitting the trail… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow. — Frederick Henry Hedge Copy Share Image