Passions Quotes
943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors
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Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of…
— Carol Muske-Dukes
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Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil…
— Serge Schmemann
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The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very…
— Horace Walpole
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The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are…
— Thomas Sprat
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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We…
— Eric Greitens
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
— Sabrina Lloyd
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I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my…
— Thomas Francis Meagher
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A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it…
— J. D. Greear
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.
— Robert Genn
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The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is…
— Orson F. Whitney
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
— Edmund Waller
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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
— Edwin Arnold
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and…
— V.S. Naipaul
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Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
— Christina Stead
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Inform yourself about animal issues, and listen to different perspectives on how to help animals. Don't latch onto the first opinion that you hear about…
— Unknown Author
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Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be…
— Ephrem the Syrian
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But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
— Isaac Watts
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Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
— Joshua Lederberg
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Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.
— Dave Ramsey
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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than…
— Thom Gunn
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I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your…
— Bob Goff
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Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view…
— Hideo Kojima
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