Quotes with passion-stains

Quotes 101 till 120 of 248.

  • Aaron Hill Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
    - +
     0
  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Charles Caleb Colton Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Marquis de Sade Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
    - +
     0
  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is a useless passion.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
    - +
     0
  • Lord George Byron Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
    - +
     0
  • Barbra Streisand Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Sir Thomas Browne Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
    - +
     0
  • Caitriona Balfe Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
    - +
     0
  • Rita Mae Brown Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • C. S. Lewis Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
    The Pilgrims Regress
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • John Ruskin Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Blank My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carson Daly My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bell Hooks My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
    - +
     0
  • Virginia Woolf My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
    - +
     0
  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Mandeville No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
    - +
     0
All passion-stains famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 6)