Passions Quotes

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Love is only one of many passions.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.