PASSION QUOTES IV
quotations about passion
Passion is hugely contagious, while the ersatz variety leaves everyone switched off. It also leaves many a lad with a potato clock he doesn't want and can't palm off on his sister for love nor money.
ROWAN PELLING
"Giving science toys to boys is not the worst of it -- we all secretly try to control our kids with gifts", The Telegraph, December 11, 2016
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
If you have vanquished your passion, and not been vanquished by it, you have reason to rejoice.
PLAUTUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, March 5, 1711
The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Passion makes a burlesque of the features.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.... If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
ROALD DAHL
My Uncle Oswald
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Timoleon
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
Passion is not well bred.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Written on the Body
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
When the mind is clouded with passions, it is odds but a man misses his way.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Passion is an all-important part of a romantic relationship. A marriage without passion can be a very dull, uninteresting union. It, however, is just one part of a happy marriage. All the other virtues should be looked for in a long-term partnership -- unselfishness, generosity, loyalty, honesty, self-control and don't forget industry.
NINA GILFERT
"The topic today is love", Daily Commercial, November 20, 2016
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
ALEXANDER POPE
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
Everyone's got to be passionate about something, or they're not worth shit.
JOSEPH FINDER
Paranoia
We condemn generally the passions of others by other passions either like or unlike.
PASQUIER QUESNEL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Passion is oxygen of the soul.
BILL BUTLER
attributed, Gauraw, August 29, 2013
Give me that man
That is not passion's slave.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet