Quotes with passion-stains

Quotes 201 till 220 of 248.

  • Alexander Pope The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lily Walters The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.
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  • Thomas Jefferson The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ben Brantley Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Charles Dickens There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bliss Carman There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Ben Carson There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Charles De Montesquieu There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Lord George Byron There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Molière There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Bernard Malamud Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Albert Camus To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • James Baldwin True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Aeschylus Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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