Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
~By Robert Lowth ~
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
~By Joseph Butler ~
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
~By Shania Twain ~
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
~By Joseph Butler ~
There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
~By Daniel Craig ~
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
~By James M. Barrie ~
I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
~By William Faulkner ~
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
~By Moliere ~
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.
~By Steve Case ~
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
~By Lord Byron ~
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
~By Theodore White ~
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
~By Thomas Browne ~
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
~By Arthur Rubinstein ~
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
~By June Jordan ~
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 ~
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
Compassion is the basis of morality.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
~By Howard Dean ~
I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
~By Georg Brandes ~
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
~By John Milton ~
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
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 ~
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
~By Tiger Woods ~
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
We are minor in everything but our passions.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
~By Jose Marti ~
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
~By Cillian Murphy ~
Our true passions are selfish.
~By Stendhal ~
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
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 ~
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
~By Herman Cain ~
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
~By Robert Southey ~
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
~By Milan Kundera ~
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 ~
The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
~By Li Ka Shing ~
I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.
~By Steve Blake ~
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 ~
Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
~By Nick Rahall ~
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
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 ~
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
~By Martin Yan ~
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
~By Walter Pater ~
There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
~By Jim McDermott ~
Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.
~By John Sexton ~
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
~By Jason Patric ~
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
~By Antisthenes ~
To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
~By Gwen John ~
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
~By H. G. Wells ~
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
~By Glenn Close ~
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
~By Akhenaton ~
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
~By Robert Anderson ~
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
~By Jack Henry Abbott ~
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 ~
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
~By Richard Whately ~
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.
~By Juliet Mills ~
It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.
~By Robert Patrick ~
I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
~By Zane Grey ~
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
~By Joseph Butler ~
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
~By William Falconer ~
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
~By David Hume ~
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
~By Giovanni Boccaccio ~
They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
~By Robert Plant ~
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
~By Everett Dirksen ~
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
~By James Joyce ~
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
~By Bryan Miller ~
I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.
~By Kristanna Loken ~
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
~By John H. Johnson ~
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
~By Kris Kristofferson ~
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
~By Sue Grafton ~
I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.
~By Teena Marie ~
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