Passions Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our true passions are selfish.

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.