Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves.… — Richard Powers
Musical theater is one of my passions. — Patrick Wilson
Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great. — Leona Lewis
Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us. — Gene Robinson
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of… — Andrew O'Hagan
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be… — Alexis De Tocqueville
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. — Francois La Rochefoucauld
God is the Seed;The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is… — Sri Sathya Sai Baba
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other… — William Hazlitt
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and… — Marcel Proust
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled. — Unknown Author
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising… — Horace
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and… — Proverb
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire — Francois La Rochefoucauld
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions — Benjamin Disraeli
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last — Chamfort
Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a… — James Allen
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after — Jonathan Swift
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions — St Thomas Aquinas
To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions. — Bertrand Russell
My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind. — Unknown Author
Man is truly great when he can act from his passions — Benjamin Disraeli
He that overcomes his passions, overcomes his greatest enemies — John Milton

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