Quotes with passion

Quotes 181 till 200 of 244.

  • Bill Walton The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Mark Twain The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aristotle The law is reason, free from passion.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Adrienne Rich The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Umberto Eco The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 527
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Robert Malthus The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
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  • Mikhail Bakunin The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Wayne Dyer The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • 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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