Passion Quotes

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It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has… — Madame de Stael
Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving.… — Unknown Author
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with… — James Elroy Flecker
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling… — Pope Pius XII
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty
Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. — Daniel Goleman
What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with… — Immanuel Wallerstein
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been… — Adolf Hitler
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,… — Saint Augustine
Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these… — Frances Xavier Cabrini
We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow… — Caryll Houselander
Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi… — Pope Benedict XVI
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His… — Paul of the Cross
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! — H. Rider Haggard
Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul… — Iris Murdoch
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world. — Unknown Author
Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films.… — Yash Chopra
When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things happen-you will find… — Stephen Covey
Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of… — Stephen Covey
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very… — Oscar Wilde
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy… — Chris Hedges

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