Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
~By Stendhal ~
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
~By George Savile ~
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
~By Malcolm Arnold ~
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
~By Richard Gere ~
It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
~By Simone Weil ~
I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
~By Dorothy Hamill ~
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
~By Saint Patrick ~
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.
~By Scott Patterson ~
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
~By James Broughton ~
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
~By Anthony Powell ~
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
~By Huston Smith ~
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
~By Stendhal ~
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
~By Scott Stapp ~
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
~By Jody Watley ~
With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.
~By Justin Guarini ~
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
~By Mason Cooley ~
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
~By Amy Grant ~
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.
~By Andrea Jung ~
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
~By Rollo May ~
I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.
~By Deborah Cox ~
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.
~By Geoff Downes ~
Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.
~By Todd English ~
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
~By Harry Mathews ~
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
~By Antisthenes ~
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.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
~By Barbara Walters ~
I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.
~By Jude Law ~
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
~By Nina Blackwood ~
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
~By Rene Cassin ~
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
~By Walter Pater ~
But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.
~By Delia Smith ~
In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
~By Mark Foley ~
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.
~By Jim Capaldi ~
I think there's a passion for God like never before.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
~By John Ruskin ~
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
~By Edward Levi ~
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~By Rose Franken ~
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.
~By Jeanne Calment ~
Fear is the passion of slaves.
~By Patrick Henry ~
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
~By Ralph Cudworth ~
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.
~By Heidi Klum ~
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
~By W. H. Auden ~
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.
~By Marcel Proust ~
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
~By Ben Bradlee ~
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
~By Brad Henry ~
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
~By Walter Pater ~
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
~By Saint Stephen ~
As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
~By Roland Barthes ~
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
~By Alfred Jarry ~
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
~By Candace Bushnell ~
I'm very passionate about what I do.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.
~By Bill Goldberg ~
You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
~By Morley Safer ~
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
~By Confucius ~
If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.
~By Estelle Morris ~
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.
~By George Woodcock ~
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
~By Jessica Lange ~
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
~By Joan Blades ~
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
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