Passions Quotes

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.

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.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Our true passions are selfish.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Passions are the gales of life.