Passions Quotes
943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors
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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind…
— Pope John Paul II
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I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and…
— Eva Hoffman
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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to…
— Algernon Sidney
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
— Alexander Herzen
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I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of…
— Peter Berg
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions…
— Jack Abbott
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By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny…
— Humphry Davy
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
— Rene Descartes
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Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to…
— David Horowitz
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I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't…
— Bryce Dallas Howard
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It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of…
— Juliet Mills
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Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.
— Michael Jackson
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It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
— Fisher Ames
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I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.
— Lindsay Hartley
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There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild…
— Lindsay Hartley
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I just want to keep going with the soaps. Maybe it's because I'm just so used to them. I was 21 when I started 'Passions'…
— Lindsay Hartley
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Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.
— Jake Pavelka
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If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.
— Chris Hardwick
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Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually…
— Bernard Baruch
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Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and…
— Theophan the Recluse
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
— Bodhidharma
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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
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We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion…
— Thomas Lickona
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