Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. — Lord Chesterfield
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the… — Richard Le Gallienne
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
Men of cold passions have quick eyes. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four… — Desiderius Erasmus
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of… — James Madison
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from… — Blaise Pascal
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. — Maria Edgeworth
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave. — Cyril Connolly
If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed… — George Lucas
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. — Denis Diderot
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not… — Soren Kierkegaard
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many… — Norman MacCaig
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past,… — Azar Nafisi
Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a… — Daniel Pipes
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of… — Maximus the Confessor
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he… — Maximus the Confessor
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not… — Maximus the Confessor
For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between… — Maximus the Confessor
We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I… — Maximus the Confessor
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the… — Maximus the Confessor
My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart… — Cecily von Ziegesar
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face… — Symeon the New Theologian
... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind… — Symeon the New Theologian

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