The Passion Quotes

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild

Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

If you believe in yourself and have passion, you can succeed.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Once I find something I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive.

Will you, or will you not, quit me? I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. "I would prefer not to quit you", he replied, gently emphasizing the not.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

But my biggest passion is football.

I've reached an unexpected point in my life where I no longer have the passion that I once did for the company, for the games and for the challenge of creation.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Pentateuch.

[My kids] don't need to cook to keep me happy. It's my job as dad to create opportunities so that they can find their passion. Forget about money, find what you really want to do with your life.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head, The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.