All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy--dreams where, amidst… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
If he were less well trained, and less careful, he would say hate. But he can’t say it; it is too close… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
“Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I admire companies that have a purpose, passion, and performance. I am a fan of Unilever under its CEO Paul Polman, not… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
“You want to know what's wrong?" He took her chin, forcing her to look at him. She could feel the angry pounding… — Monica McCarty Copy Share Image
“You may have done spiritual work before this but this is the beginning of the path of Divine Love, for your soul… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
“As a rule, we must not be the slaves of passion; rather, we must be the possessors of great passions. Through passion… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“That is, adoration was patient and waiting while love or, if you liked, plain sexual passion banged everything about. It either shouted… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“Neither of us wanted to say it first. But our two souls had become one in a realm no one else could… — Sherry Soule Copy Share Image
“it is hard to find one’s calling because many mistakenly believe they need to look only within to discover their passion. Although… — Haemin Sunim Copy Share Image
[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by… — Matilde Serao Copy Share Image
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“If You Love me.. -- Your love drove me towards the live volcano where i will be burnt and destroyed On your… — Seema Gupta Copy Share Image
It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
[Mel Gibson] had just directed The Passion [Of The Christ], and it had just been released as we started production on Complete… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
“Pyotr was the arcane hero, complete with buff body that you secretly whacked off to as a boy. And suddenly he turned… — Talon P.S Copy Share Image
Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“Love for a child cannot be free; from the first signs of movement in the womb, a devotion springs up as powerful… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it… — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of control. Feminist thinkers… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
If you love something, if you're passionate about it, that's where you're going to have the greatest impact on the people around… — Kurt Warner Copy Share Image
![“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees…” quote by Matilde Serao](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91b/matilde-serao-56498_blood_gambling-is-a-perfidious-passion-it-is-b_1447022.jpg)
![“[Mel Gibson] had just directed The Passion [Of The Christ], and it had just been released as we started production on Complete Savages. But I have to say, nobody ever talked about it, and he never brought any of that to work. He was just delightful, and I had a great time.” quote by Keith Carradine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/03c/keith-carradine-15039_christ_mel-gibson-had-just-directed-the-passion_1506620.jpg)
![“[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield…” quote by Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/94d/willa-cather-634_art_some-people-really-expect-the-passion-of_890954.jpg)
