Quotes 61 till 80 of 244.
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
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I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
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I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
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