Impassioned Quotes

47 Impassioned quotes by 44 unique authors

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 nature… 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
And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow. — Frederick Henry Hedge
Impassioned Lovers, Clawing, Breathless, Lost in the Dance. Exquisite Love, Terrifying, Timeless, When given the chance. Beautiful Romance, Ache, Need, To simply make smile. Absolute… — Eric Nickel
Impassioned Lovers.... Prelude to the Dance... Trembling... Crying... Lost... Found... Free.... First touch... Electric.... Terrifying... Liberating.... Beautiful Anticipation... Exquisite Realization... Eyes Locked... Hearts pounding.... Flesh… — Eric Nickel
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one, lonely man cries for love and has none. New mother picks up and suckles her son, senior citizen wishes they… — The Moody Blues
I am resolved in that my greatest contribution to society, having never been a vagrant, assassin, or otherwise impassioned ne'er do well, is consistency. — L Vincent Majestic
I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the thousands there weep… — John Wesley Powell

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