Quotes with passion

  • Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
  • 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!
  • On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
  • It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
  • It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
  • One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
  • As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
  • Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
  • Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
  • The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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  • Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Horace Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Douglas Jerrold He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Bruce Jackson All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Ann Oakley Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Laurence Sterne Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Edmund Burke Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Lyman Abbott Patience is passion tamed.
    Lyman Abbott
    American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. (1835 - 1922)
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  • Pythagoras Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Nelson Mandela There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Brit Morin Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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