Passions Quotes

Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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.

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.

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.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

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.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

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.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

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