Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It… — Gaston Bachelard
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love… — Robert Southey
No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are… — Harold Pinter
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but… — Benjamin Franklin
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of… — Alexander Pope
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither… — Pope Pius X
All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to… — Lin Yutang
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner… — John Henry Newman
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good… — Elizabeth McCracken
Sanctified ignorance is the belief that if we love God and have committed our lives to Him, everything will work out…Sanctified ignorance is no excuse… — Dan Miller
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. — Confucius
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. — Henry Home, Lord Kames
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed… — Abraham J. Williams
Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to… — Joel Osteen
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route… — Arthur Miller
Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those… — Ariane Mnouchkine
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions — Tacitus
Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up… — Alan Sillitoe
Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must… — Eduardo Galeano
Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up… — Joseph Brodsky
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An… — Samuel Johnson
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters… — Samuel Johnson
Put your passions to work to make this world a better place. — Richard Branson

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