I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
~By Michael J. Tucker ~
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
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 ~
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 ~
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
~By Richard Rogers ~
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
~By Lao Tzu ~
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
~By June Jordan ~
A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
~By Clementine Paddleford ~
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
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 ~
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
~By Harold Ramis ~
It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.
~By Tom Barrett ~
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
~By Brooks Robinson ~
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
~By Tina Yothers ~
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
~By Randy West ~
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
~By James Harrington ~
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
~By Lara St. John ~
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
~By Horace ~
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
~By Ann Druyan ~
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
~By Charles Inglis ~
From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.
~By Heidi Klum ~
And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
~By Robert G. Allen ~
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
~By Martha Graham ~
Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.
~By Robin Cousins ~
Our passion is our strength.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
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 ~
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
~By Stephen Fry ~
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
~By Theodore White ~
In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.
~By Gedde Watanabe ~
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
~By Miriam Makeba ~
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
~By Franz Kafka ~
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
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 ~
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
~By Lord Byron ~
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
~By Gary Oldman ~
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
~By Joseph Butler ~
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
~By Debi Mazar ~
Man 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 Morgan Freeman ~
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
~By Richard Steele ~
They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real.
~By Rex Hunt ~
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
~By Charlie Haden ~
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 ~
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
~By Denis Diderot ~
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
~By Danielle Steel ~
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
~By W. H. Auden ~
If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.
~By Bette Howland ~
People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.
~By Gena Rowlands ~
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
~By Richard Whately ~
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
~By Louise J. Kaplan ~
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
~By Arthur Golden ~
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
~By Israel Zangwill ~
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 ~
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.
~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
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 ~
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
~By Ken Burns ~
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
~By George W. Bush ~
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
~By Phil Jackson ~
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.
~By Tina Yothers ~
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
~By James A. Garfield ~
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
~By John Rawls ~
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
~By Ted Allen ~
But my biggest passion is football.
~By Greg Akcelrod ~
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
~By Joseph Butler ~
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
~By Michael Foot ~
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
~By George Mason ~
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
~By David Hume ~
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
~By Jim Dine ~
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
~By Ed Gillespie ~
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
~By Omar Sharif ~
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
~By Faye Dunaway ~
The strongest passion is fear.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
~By Louise Brown ~
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