Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what… — Dan Savage
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us… — George A. Smith
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. — Susan Sontag
All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. — Sonia Sotomayor
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power,… — Lysander Spooner
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in… — Stendhal
Our true passions are selfish. — Stendhal
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will… — Stendhal
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. — Laurence Sterne
As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And… — J. Michael Straczynski
When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does… — Taylor Swift
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. — Elizabeth Taylor
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. — Gene Tierney
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. — Voltaire
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the… — Horace Walpole
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. — George Will
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent… — William Butler Yeats
If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what… — Felicia Day
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals. — Geoff Mulgan
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. — Thomas Fuller
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear… — George Bernard Shaw
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. — David Hume

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