Impassioned Quotes

47 quotes by 44 authors

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish… — Nick Laird
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science — William Wordsworth
During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles. — Fabien Cousteau
Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive. — Rod Stryker
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each… — Kadmi Cohen
We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I… — Maximus the Confessor
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned… — Erin Gruwell
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the… — Brenda Ueland
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit natureâ€¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling… — H. L. Mencken
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote… — David Foster Wallace
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for… — Thomas M. Disch
You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly… — Henry Rollins
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of… — Mikhail Lermontov
But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our… — Thomas Love Peacock
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned. — Maxwell Struthers Burt
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and… — Rick Atkinson
There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs. — Alain Ducasse
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred… — Rene Cassin

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