Quotes about passion
passion love-is two
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger. Rene Descartes
passion soul training
Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
passion magic firsts
Wonder is the first of all the passions.
passion mind body
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
passion love-is energy
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder
passion world maelstrom
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world. Thomas Nagel
passion men tongue
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. Thomas Paine
passion uniforms peculiar
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.
passion self prejudice
Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified. Thomas Huxley
passion discipline historical
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences. Thomas Piketty
passion men justice
Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed. Robert Kennedy
passion acceptance men
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.
passion self profound
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Richard Linklater
passion identity serious
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom. Tariq Ramadan
passion ideas people
Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm. T. Harv Eker
passion enthusiasm values
I promote my value to others with passion and enthusiasm.
passion soul church
A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls. T. D. Jakes
passion successful winning
When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.
passion empowering able
It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
passion soul may
May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.
passion majority humans
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. T. S. Eliot
passion emotional justice
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
passionate engagement want
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. Susan Sontag
passion taste good-taste
Passion paralyzes good taste.
passion past photographer
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.
passion passionate love-passion
I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate. Ray Lewis
passion views giving
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe. Thomas Jefferson
passion men political
You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.
passion people political
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.
passion soul my-soul
Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
passion car long
Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there. Robert Herjavec
passion worry originality
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. Robert Henri
passion the-end-of-the-day ends
At the end of the day, the markets are my passion. Rick Santelli