Strong Passions Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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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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Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes…
— James D'arcy
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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
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Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited…
— Oliver Sacks
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.…
— Oscar Wilde
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The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Who Wrote These Strong Passions Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Strong Passions Quotes as follows: