Passionless Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
— Joe Biden
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
— Aristotle
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the…
— Oswald Chambers
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It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment…
— David Lasser
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There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless…
— Donald C. Peattie
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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,…
— Sara Teasdale
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end…
— Dawna Markova
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Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to…
— Aleister Crowley
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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
— Peace Pilgrim
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a…
— Bertrand Russell
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Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall…
— Lord Byron
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Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race…
— Peter Weiss
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Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
— Frank Herbert
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What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Passionless Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 21 Passionless Quotes as follows: