Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions. — Robert Holden
There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an… — Jeffrey Kluger
Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. — Wes Nisker
Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you. — Richard Schmid
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. — William Osler
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. — Richard Steele
Passions change, politics are immutable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the… — Henry Clay
Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word,… — Saint Francis de Sales
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. — Alexander von Humboldt
It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life,… — Isaac Watts
There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most… — Amy Chua
With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure. — Wu Cheng'en
When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting… — Steven Bochco
People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those… — Hiroko Sakai
Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed… — Robert Sheaffer
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that… — Christian Nestell Bovee
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and… — Amos Bronson Alcott
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this… — Wilfrid Sheed
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for… — Marcus Aurelius
By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about… — Charles Caleb Colton

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