Passions Quotes
943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors
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The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too…
— Joseph Story
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
— John C. Maxwell
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Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very…
— Susanna Moodie
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and…
— George Eliot
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One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
— Paul Newman
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The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights…
— Rick Santorum
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The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that.
— Rick Santorum
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We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history…
— Billy Barty
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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone…
— Patrick Stewart
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With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later,…
— Thomas Keller
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I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still…
— Ed Kashi
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Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves,
— Ralph Klein
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Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was…
— James E. Talmage
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The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we…
— George Eliot
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Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.
— Janet Morris
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and…
— Rajneesh
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
— Aristotle
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
— Edward Abbey
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When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among…
— George Washington
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest…
— John Quincy Adams
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My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain…
— James Boswell
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Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to…
— Erich Fromm
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