Quotes with passion-stains

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  • Anita Diamant Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • William Blake Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Abraham Lincoln We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
    First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jean Baudrillard We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • John Ruskin We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Toni Morrison We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
    The Bluest Eye (2014) 138
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre We must act out passion before we can feel it.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Cyril Connolly We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bruce Springsteen We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.
    Guitar magazine July 1999
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • John Dryden What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
    A Song for Cecilia's Day (1687)
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Blaise Pascal When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Butch Trucks When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Berthold Auerbach When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Susan Sontag With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Woman often feigns love; man, oftener, passion.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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