Passion Quotes · Page 159

“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.”

— E.M. Forster

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can…

— Langhorne Slim

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

— Michel de Montaigne

I've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing…

— Sidney Crosby

“Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

— Antisthenes

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

— Leonard Ravenhill

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion…

— Stephen Kinzer

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what…

— Lakshmi Mittal

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high…

— Dan Marino

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the…

— Michael J. Fox

I can relate with a woman's pain, their moods, their love, their passion. Maybe the percentage of woman in me is more.…

— Ravi Kishan

My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem,…

— Shai Agassi

I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my…

— Michael Franti

“Sturm und Drang?” “Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally…

— Lisa Kleypas

I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life,…

— Nina Berberova

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about…

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught…

— Graham Greene

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so…

— Robertson Davies

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry…

— John Howard

It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For,…

— Thomas Aquinas

“I knew all along that, if the two of us ever got to this point, we’d be a cyclone. A full immersion…

— A. Wilding Wells

Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

— Omar Sharif

“If you live your life with passion, every second will become an adventure.”

— Marie Guillaume

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction,

— Charles Lindbergh

The Merseyside derby is a terrific game full of passion, full of quality.

— David Moyes

That wrestling ring is home for me; it's my passion. I love what I do.

— Nikki Bella

It's the passion for the game that attracts politicians to cricket.

— Anurag Thakur

If we want conservative principles to win the battle of ideas, we have to defend them openly, with passion and conviction.

— Maxime Bernier

I gaze deeply into her eyes I feel as though I am lost in a sea of passion that no man has…

— Anonymous

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

— Demi Moore

“The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being.”

— Pooja Ruprell

A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.

— Sarah McLachlan

I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.

— Amish Tripathi

“It’s passion that breathes life into the shells of our existence.”

— Jeremy Asher

If you're not willing to risk it all, then you don't want it bad enough.

— Anonymous

“You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.”

— Melody Lee

You want a love that consumes you. You want a passion and adventure and even a little bit of danger.

— Damon Salvator