Passions Quotes

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.