Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for… — Beth Ditto
Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to… — Roger Ebert
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. — Epictetus
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had. — Tim Ferriss
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our… — Shelby Foote
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. — Alexander Hamilton
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. — Alexander Hamilton
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress… — Adolf Hitler
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. — Eric Hoffer
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey… — David Hume
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. — David Hume
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. — Aldous Huxley
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Love is only one of many passions. — Samuel Johnson
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. — Carl Jung
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. — Jack Kerouac
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker… — Soren Kierkegaard
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. — Soren Kierkegaard
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with… — Joseph Wood Krutch
I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people. — Yo-Yo Ma
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while. — Anna Magnani
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. — Gustav Mahler
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. — John Milton
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. — Vladimir Nabokov

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