Passions Quotes
943 quotes by 621 authors
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;…
— Mary Astell
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
— Honore de Balzac
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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so…
— Bernard Baruch
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any…
— Jeff Bezos
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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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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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one…
— Wade Boggs
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
— James Buchan
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
— Edmund Burke
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
— Edmund Burke
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure…
— Lord Byron
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
— Lord Byron
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Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
— Deepak Chopra
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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance…
— Chris Christie
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
— Peter Abelard
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— Thomas Aquinas
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