Quotes about passion
passion men thinking
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
passion law weapons
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
passion safety demon
The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
passion virtue defects
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
passion disease incurable-disease
Great passions are incurable diseases.
passion feelings may
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
passion phoenix ashes
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
passion blood silver-bells
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. Emil Nolde
passion cooking cooks
I love to cook; that's my passion. Emeril Lagasse
passion two reason
One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.
passion adventure should-have
People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place. Ellen Potter
passion important details
Passion makes every detail important. Gilbert K. Chesterton
passion self secret
When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret! Hermann Hesse
passion heart joy
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
passion expression details
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive. Henri Matisse
passion unique actors
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. Hattie McDaniel
passion risk action
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all. Herodotus
passion people singing
The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting. Heinrich Heine
passion views ideas
Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity. Hideo Kojima
passion yield evil
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. Henry Ward Beecher
passion expression long
I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old .... Henry Clay
passion partners great-passion
A great passion has no partner. Johann Kaspar Lavater
passion murder blasphemy
The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
passion power literature
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
passion unity pieces
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. Hans Urs von Balthasar
passion skills crafts
When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three. Harlan Ellison
passion actresses my-passion
I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion. Hani Furstenberg
passion burning abstract
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. Gustave Moreau
passion way sooner-or-later
But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human. Gustave Flaubert
passion space crowds
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
passion selfishness doctrine
It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.
passion men postman
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
passion inspirational-music playing-music
What passion cannot music raise and quell! John Dryden