Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. Votes: 3
Thomas HobbesPassions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. Votes: 3
Andrew Michael RamsayPassions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. Votes: 3
Jules Amedee Barbey d'AurevillyThe Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroPassions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Votes: 3
Walter RaleighTo be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. Votes: 3
Richard SteeleYou'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions. Votes: 1
Jay WeatherillA man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. Votes: 1
Carl JungWomen can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIndolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldPrivate passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never. Votes: 0
Alphonse de LamartineFrom passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheSports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. Votes: 0
William H. GassUnderstanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled. Votes: 0
Thomas HobbesTake mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonAll passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortCivilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. Votes: 0
Steve AllenWhen you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. Votes: 0
Robert GennPursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting. Votes: 0
Guy KawasakiTake mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonFollow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come. Votes: 0
Elizabeth TaylorI tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghAll passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneAmericans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction. Votes: 0
Sarah Josepha HaleHow fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. Votes: 0
Dorothy L. SayersMen need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices. Votes: 0
Dorothea DixOf all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonAn historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierWhen passions are ignited in the heart, the whole body responds to its stimulus Votes: 0
Ikechukwu IzuakorArtists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. Votes: 0
Wes NiskerHouses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. Votes: 0
Gene TierneyIntestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeLong ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. Votes: 0
Dejan StojanovicChristianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. Votes: 0
Bill JohnsonElections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want. Votes: 0
Charles M. BlowPour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonDeep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity. Votes: 0
Michael JacksonIf you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaYour happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Votes: 0
Scott WeissLoudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing. Votes: 0
Oriah DreamerPerfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. Votes: 0
Thomas AquinasThe most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. Votes: 0
Rick SantorumEvery man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyWe eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Votes: 0
Charles Dudley WarnerMy passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyIf we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldReason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion. Votes: 0
John Henry NewmanA man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.. Votes: 0
David O. McKayNo man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. Votes: 0
Lyman AbbottWhen the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonEvery man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Votes: 0
Claude Adrien HelvetiusAll the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. Votes: 0
Paul NewmanAnger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiYour priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Votes: 0
Dave RamseyDance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions. Votes: 0
RumiAn accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself. Votes: 0
William HazlittOur passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. Votes: 0
Daniel GolemanMy future is full - it is limitless - and my passions for America will remain. Votes: 0
Michele BachmannOne of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that. Votes: 0
Leonardo DiCaprioIrrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. Votes: 0
AristotleOur passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisNo mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. Votes: 0
SallustVirtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsAll the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldHe who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. Votes: 0
John MiltonYour rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you. Votes: 0
Richard SchmidPASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; Votes: 0
Walter RaleighGods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men. Votes: 0
Janet MorrisMen are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. Votes: 0
David HumeAll other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. Votes: 0
John RuskinIf ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. Votes: 0
Vittorio AlfieriTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonA single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterHe that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThe most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. Votes: 0
Karl MarxFanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes. Votes: 0
Lord ActonIt was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeStrong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonPowerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonIts okay to have a job that fits your passions, we don't have to suffer for money. Votes: 0
Doreen VirtueIn life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions. Votes: 0
William Sloane CoffinOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food Votes: 0
Guy de MaupassantOne of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellA man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIn reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinThe passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIdeas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellThe duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonAnyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. Votes: 0
VoltaireI see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneCreation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic Votes: 0
Christina SteadSo blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonThe seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! Votes: 0
Edmund WallerIn their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldMusic is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. Votes: 0
Layne StaleyMusic is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. Votes: 0
Layne StaleyOur passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBut why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions? Votes: 0
Ellen DouglasNo woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me. Votes: 0
Florence NightingaleIt is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others. Votes: 0
D. A. CarsonThe one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart. Votes: 0
Vladimir Aleksandrovich AntonovMake a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions. Votes: 0
Robert HoldenMy fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Votes: 0
Jack KerouacIt is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. Votes: 0
AesopThey sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. Votes: 0
Robert SoutheyTwo passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinNow, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalThe art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. Votes: 0
William CowperMy real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape. Votes: 0
Nacho FiguerasOur passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI decided to follow my dreams and my passions and to always have an adventure, no matter what it is. Votes: 0
Gabrielle UnionI fell in love with these two passions that I made into careers, and I've never had to give one up. Votes: 0
Donavon Frankenreiter