Quotes about Passions

Passions change, politics are immutable. Votes: 3

Passions are the gales of life. Votes: 3

Passions are generally roused from great conflict. Votes: 3

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. Votes: 3

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. Votes: 3

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. Votes: 3

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness. Votes: 3

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. Votes: 3

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding. Votes: 3

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. Votes: 3

Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking. Votes: 3

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. Votes: 3

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds. Votes: 3

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. Votes: 3

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. Votes: 3

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Votes: 3

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. Votes: 3

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. Votes: 3

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. Votes: 3

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. Votes: 3

I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions. Votes: 3

I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.' Votes: 3

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. Votes: 3

That's the very reason why love is eternal,' concluded João Fulgêncio, "˜because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains. Votes: 3

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. Votes: 3

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few. Votes: 3

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct? Votes: 3

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon. Votes: 3

We are minor in everything but our passions. Votes: 1

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams. Votes: 1

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. Votes: 1

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Votes: 1

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not. Votes: 1

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions. Votes: 1

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. Votes: 1

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Votes: 1

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Votes: 1

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. Votes: 1

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Votes: 1

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. Votes: 1

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that. Votes: 1

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Votes: 1

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones. Votes: 1

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it. Votes: 1

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface. Votes: 1

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? Votes: 1

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. Votes: 1

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. Votes: 1

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good. Votes: 1

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Votes: 1

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. Votes: 1

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice. Votes: 1

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. Votes: 1

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. Votes: 1

Our passions are ourselves. Votes: 0

Pursuit of desires, divine passions. Votes: 0

Great passions are incurable diseases. Votes: 0

Our true passions are selfish. Votes: 0

Mobs have passions, not brains. Votes: 0

I love sharing my passions. Votes: 0

I love sharing my passions. Votes: 0

True passions do not deprive love. Votes: 0

Hate and love are reciprocal passions. Votes: 0

Hate and love are reciprocal passions. Votes: 0

The passions often engender their contraries. Votes: 0

In music the passions enjoy themselves. Votes: 0

Sloth is all passions the most powerful. Votes: 0

I tend to obsess over my passions. Votes: 0

Vices are often habits rather than passions. Votes: 0

Without passions you have no experience whatever. Votes: 0

What passions cannot music raise or quell? Votes: 0

I don't have hobbies. I have passions. Votes: 0

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage. Votes: 0

Musical theater is one of my passions. Votes: 0

Men of cold passions have quick eyes. Votes: 0

Keep all your passions in your life. Votes: 0

Love is only one of many passions. Votes: 0

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. Votes: 0

Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions. Votes: 0

This purity is attained through conquering the passions. Votes: 0

The hunger of passions is the greatest disease. Votes: 0

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most. Votes: 0

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. Votes: 0

Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest. Votes: 0

Believe in your passions and act on them. Votes: 0

Wonder is the first of all the passions. Votes: 0

The passions are the voice of the body. Votes: 0

It is the passions that do and undo everything. Votes: 0

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions Votes: 0

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you. Votes: 0

The passions are the only orators which always persuade. Votes: 0

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. Votes: 0

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason. Votes: 0

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. Votes: 0

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves. Votes: 0

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. Votes: 0

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. Votes: 0

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. Votes: 0

Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves, Votes: 0

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. Votes: 0

The more passions you have the happier you'll be Votes: 0

Love is the most selfish of all the passions. Votes: 0

The passions do not die out; they burn out. Votes: 0

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors. Votes: 0

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. Votes: 0

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm and passions are the fundamental ingredients of all success. Votes: 0

Core passions and aspirations should be consistent and in sync. Votes: 0

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. Votes: 0

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men. Votes: 0

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. Votes: 0

When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions. Votes: 0

I want people to realize their life's dreams and passions. Votes: 0

Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great. Votes: 0

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. Votes: 0

Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess. Votes: 0

I want people to realize their life's dreams and passions. Votes: 0

The passions of the young are vices in the old. Votes: 0

You will be remembered in life only for your passions! Votes: 0

Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul. Votes: 0

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom. Votes: 0

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions. Votes: 0

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. Votes: 0

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul. Votes: 0

The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die. Votes: 0

There are passions that it is not for man to choose. Votes: 0

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals. Votes: 0

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. Votes: 0

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. Votes: 0

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. Votes: 0

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. Votes: 0

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? Votes: 0

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict. Votes: 0

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never. Votes: 0

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. Votes: 0

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. Votes: 0

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. Votes: 0

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason. Votes: 0

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave. Votes: 0

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small. Votes: 0

Never give up your dreams and stay focused on your passions. Votes: 0

I have so many passions outside of my passion for acting. Votes: 0

Success begins to chase us when we begin chasing our passions. Votes: 0

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last. Votes: 0

When we are passionate about God, we can trust our passions. Votes: 0

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. Votes: 0

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions Votes: 0

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us. Votes: 0

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. Votes: 0

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting. Votes: 0

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. Votes: 0

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions. Votes: 0

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. Votes: 0

Put your passions to work to make this world a better place. Votes: 0

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.] Votes: 0

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions. Votes: 0

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. Votes: 0

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. Votes: 0

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. Votes: 0

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. Votes: 0

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal. Votes: 0

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. Votes: 0

Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled. Votes: 0

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. Votes: 0

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding. Votes: 0

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance. Votes: 0

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions. Votes: 0

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue. Votes: 0

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match. Votes: 0

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. Votes: 0

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions. Votes: 0

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. Votes: 0

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. Votes: 0

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people. Votes: 0

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions. Votes: 0

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come. Votes: 0

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. Votes: 0

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices. Votes: 0

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. Votes: 0

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love Votes: 0

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. Votes: 0

You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you. Votes: 0

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction. Votes: 0

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. Votes: 0

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same. Votes: 0

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. Votes: 0

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. Votes: 0

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write. Votes: 0

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. Votes: 0

It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world. Votes: 0

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. Votes: 0

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature Votes: 0

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. Votes: 0

Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned Votes: 0

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. Votes: 0

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity. Votes: 0

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want. Votes: 0

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. Votes: 0

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. Votes: 0

Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing. Votes: 0

None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions. Votes: 0

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless. Votes: 0

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. Votes: 0

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage. Votes: 0

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Votes: 0

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. Votes: 0

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. Votes: 0

When passions are ignited in the heart, the whole body responds to its stimulus Votes: 0

Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are. Votes: 0

Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love. Votes: 0

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs, Votes: 0

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. Votes: 0

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. Votes: 0

There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. Votes: 0

Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of. Votes: 0

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. Votes: 0

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. Votes: 0

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes? Votes: 0

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions. Votes: 0

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. Votes: 0

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Votes: 0

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. Votes: 0

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables. Votes: 0

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions. Votes: 0

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. Votes: 0

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.. Votes: 0

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Votes: 0

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. Votes: 0

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Votes: 0

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. Votes: 0

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself. Votes: 0

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. Votes: 0

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet. Votes: 0

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Votes: 0

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion. Votes: 0

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves. Votes: 0

The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life. Votes: 0

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men. Votes: 0

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes. Votes: 0

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. Votes: 0

The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. Votes: 0

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. Votes: 0

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. Votes: 0

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. Votes: 0

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. Votes: 0

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. Votes: 0

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. Votes: 0

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire. Votes: 0

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Votes: 0

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; Votes: 0

Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you. Votes: 0

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. Votes: 0

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that. Votes: 0

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. Votes: 0

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. Votes: 0

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. Votes: 0

My future is full - it is limitless - and my passions for America will remain. Votes: 0

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. Votes: 0

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. Votes: 0

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. Votes: 0

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions. Votes: 0

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. Votes: 0

Its okay to have a job that fits your passions, we don't have to suffer for money. Votes: 0

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction, Votes: 0

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Votes: 0

The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. Votes: 0

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic Votes: 0

...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered... Votes: 0

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential. Votes: 0

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays. Votes: 0

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. Votes: 0

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food Votes: 0

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. Votes: 0

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Votes: 0

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. Votes: 0

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate. Votes: 0

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. Votes: 0

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. Votes: 0

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. Votes: 0

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. Votes: 0

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives. Votes: 0

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. Votes: 0

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had. Votes: 0

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. Votes: 0

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike. Votes: 0

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. Votes: 0

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had. Votes: 0

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us. Votes: 0

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. Votes: 0

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts. Votes: 0

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Votes: 0

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too. Votes: 0

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. Votes: 0

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. Votes: 0

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. Votes: 0

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. Votes: 0

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out. Votes: 0

Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions. Votes: 0

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! Votes: 0

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions? Votes: 0

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others. Votes: 0

The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart. Votes: 0

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. Votes: 0

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes. Votes: 0

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me. Votes: 0

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. Votes: 0

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. Votes: 0

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. Votes: 0

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love. Votes: 0

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. Votes: 0

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. Votes: 0

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength. Votes: 0

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines. Votes: 0

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. Votes: 0

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. Votes: 0

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements. Votes: 0

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. Votes: 0

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Votes: 0

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. Votes: 0

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable. Votes: 0

Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. Votes: 0

Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous. Votes: 0

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. Votes: 0

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. Votes: 0

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Votes: 0

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Votes: 0

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust... Votes: 0

Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you. Votes: 0

The passions of love ignite, the emotions of love kindle, but the actions of love set the heart ablaze. Votes: 0

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. Votes: 0

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. Votes: 0

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. Votes: 0

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. Votes: 0

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry. Votes: 0

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. Votes: 0

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather. Votes: 0

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. Votes: 0

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions. Votes: 0

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Votes: 0

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals. Votes: 0

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled. Votes: 0

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. Votes: 0

Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things. Votes: 0

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. Votes: 0

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out. Votes: 0

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ. Votes: 0

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. Votes: 0

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking. Votes: 0

How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams. Votes: 0

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions Votes: 0

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. Votes: 0

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions. Votes: 0

I decided to follow my dreams and my passions and to always have an adventure, no matter what it is. Votes: 0

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth. Votes: 0

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust. Votes: 0

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. Votes: 0

My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape. Votes: 0

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. Votes: 0

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. Votes: 0

Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily. Votes: 0

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same. Votes: 0

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Votes: 0

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. Votes: 0

I fell in love with these two passions that I made into careers, and I've never had to give one up. Votes: 0

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today. Votes: 0

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings. Votes: 0

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. Votes: 0

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. Votes: 0

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. Votes: 0

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity. Votes: 0

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions. Votes: 0

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. Votes: 0

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood. Votes: 0

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. Votes: 0

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains. Votes: 0

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. Votes: 0

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life. Votes: 0

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world. Votes: 0

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. Votes: 0

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. Votes: 0

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Votes: 0

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. Votes: 0

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. Votes: 0

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. Votes: 0

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. Votes: 0

My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role. Votes: 0

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Votes: 0

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next. Votes: 0

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. Votes: 0

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence. Votes: 0

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Votes: 0

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. Votes: 0

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm. Votes: 0

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm. Votes: 0

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. Votes: 0

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. Votes: 0

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people. Votes: 0

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us Votes: 0

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. Votes: 0

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Votes: 0

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. Votes: 0

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. Votes: 0

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Votes: 0

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard. Votes: 0

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. Votes: 0

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. Votes: 0

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. Votes: 0

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine. Votes: 0

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. Votes: 0

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. Votes: 0

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. Votes: 0

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned. Votes: 0

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting. Votes: 0

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions. Votes: 0

I was raised to pursue my passions and pursue the things that I love, and to just live life to the fullest. Votes: 0

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence. Votes: 0

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? Votes: 0

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. Votes: 0

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain. Votes: 0

As a Jew, your passions were so inflamed by that message, you made up a lie to implicate my client, isn't that true? Votes: 0

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions. Votes: 0

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses. Votes: 0

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Votes: 0

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes? Votes: 0

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. Votes: 0

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us. Votes: 0

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. Votes: 0

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue? Votes: 0

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner? Votes: 0

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. Votes: 0

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. Votes: 0

O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine! Votes: 0

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. Votes: 0

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions! Votes: 0

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors. Votes: 0

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge. Votes: 0

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint." Votes: 0

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another. Votes: 0

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. Votes: 0

Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two. Votes: 0

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Votes: 0

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar. Votes: 0

Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation. Votes: 0

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us. Votes: 0

With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure. Votes: 0

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. Votes: 0

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. Votes: 0

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society. Votes: 0

My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what. Votes: 0

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love. Votes: 0

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. Votes: 0

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for. Votes: 0

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now. Votes: 0

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. Votes: 0

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that. Votes: 0

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it. Votes: 0

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing. Votes: 0

If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul! Votes: 0

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them Votes: 0

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. Votes: 0

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater. Votes: 0

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. Votes: 0

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading. Votes: 0

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. Votes: 0

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. Votes: 0

The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them. Votes: 0

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause Votes: 0

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while. Votes: 0

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man. Votes: 0

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person. Votes: 0

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing. Votes: 0

In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. Votes: 0

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers. Votes: 0

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you. Votes: 0

They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure. Votes: 0

In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions. Votes: 0

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. Votes: 0

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards. Votes: 0

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends. Votes: 0

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. Votes: 0

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery. Votes: 0

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions Votes: 0

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel. Votes: 0

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her. Votes: 0

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. Votes: 0

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 have suffered. Votes: 0

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 good actor. Votes: 0

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life. Votes: 0

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Votes: 0

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom Votes: 0

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment. Votes: 0

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides. Votes: 0

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions "“ in a way that serves the world and you. Votes: 0

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them. Votes: 0

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn. Votes: 0

I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it. Votes: 0

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0