Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. — Zoe Wanamaker
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is… — Aristotle
By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are passions that it is not for man to choose. — Nikolai Gogol
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty… — John Keats
I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood… — John Steinbeck
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art… — Denis Diderot
The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself -… — St. Vincent
Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two. — Nik Halik
Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage. — Josiah Royce
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not… — Kenny Smith
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… — Georges Cuvier
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It… — Jerome K. Jerome
I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my… — Cara Delevingne
The more passions you have the happier you'll be — Dennis Prager
The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error… — John Arbuthnot
Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,… — Walt Whitman
The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American… — Carl T. Rowan
As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to… — Antoine-Henri Jomini
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die… — George Crabbe
I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes… — James D'arcy
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the passions that do and undo everything. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions… — Zhuangzi
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc de Clapiers

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