Passions Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.