Our Passions Quotes
76 quotes by 61 authors
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts…
— John Adams
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
— Aesop
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent…
— Francois Fenelon
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with…
— William Hazlitt
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
— Daniel Goleman
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and…
— George Eliot
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Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
— C.S. Lewis
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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that…
— Terri Windling
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves.…
— Jeremy Collier
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Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to…
— Joel Osteen
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By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
— Samuel Johnson
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The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.
— David Punter
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We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim…
— Bethany Hamilton
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