Best Our Passions Quotes
76 Our Passions quotes by 60 unique authors
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No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our…
— C.S. Lewis
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God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
— Marcel Proust
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If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing daily…
— John of Kronstadt
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Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.
— Oriah Dreamer
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We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
— Thomas S. Monson
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty…
— John Keats
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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
— Sydney J. Harris
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We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion…
— Thomas Lickona
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like…
— Denis Diderot
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
— Alexander Pope
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us…
— George A. Smith
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All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Our passions are ourselves.
— Anatole France
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we…
— Victor Hugo
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
— Bertrand Russell
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