The Passion Quotes

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.

Passion is not well bred.

He’d wanted all of me and that’s what I’d given him. Did it mean I had nothing left? “No,” he muttered, voice thick with passion. “You have me, and I love you.

I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.

Passion is your positive attitude in a world of negativity.

I was able to complete a motocross track at my house, and that's something I've always enjoyed. That time away is really what developed the passion I needed to come back and compete.

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over the years that it has become much easier.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

If a young girl feels comfortable to pursue her passion, we as a collective will be stronger and more equipped to face the challenges life presents.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

You will be remembered in life only for your passions!

Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.