Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his… — Black Elk
Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. — Layne Staley
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this… — Ken Robinson
The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark… — Caroline Myss
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their… — Benjamin Franklin
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction, — Charles Lindbergh
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. — Nicolas Chamfort
The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him,… — James F. Cooper
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
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of… — Allan Bloom
Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. — Joseph Butler
While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I… — Daniel Ek
When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that… — Hermann Hesse
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some… — Pete Hamill
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. — Sallust
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
Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest. — Alfred Douglas
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its… — Octave Mirbeau
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed… — Niles Eldredge
When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes… — T.D. Jakes
No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles of… — Manmohan Acharya
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle… — Eva Le Gallienne

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