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  • Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it. -- Sophie Swetchine
  • Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better. -- Sophie Swetchine
  • Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey. -- Alexandra Stoddard
  • There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs. -- Alain Ducasse
  • Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. -- Zhuangzi
  • And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow. -- Frederick Henry Hedge
  • As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters. -- Mariella Frostrup
  • I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered. -- Erin Gruwell
  • We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much. -- Adam Rayner
  • 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. -- Walter Pater
  • My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility. -- Jason Silva
  • I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
  • But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. -- Juan Goytisolo
  • In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. -- Rene Cassin
  • The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders. -- Rick Atkinson
  • Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving. -- Graydon Carter
  • A good orator is pointed and impassioned. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned. -- Emma Lazarus
  • It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children -- Jim George
  • Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity. -- Edna Ferber
  • Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love. -- Laurence Overmire
  • Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self. -- Stephen Covey
  • During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles. -- Fabien Cousteau
  • Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned. -- Maxwell Struthers Burt
  • Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive. -- Rod Stryker
  • Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development. -- Max Ernst
  • What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? -- Andre Dubus
  • Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science -- William Wordsworth
  • Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment. -- John D. Caputo
  • Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees. -- Jonathan Falwell
  • Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from Feminism, the Body, and the Machine) -- Wendell Berry
  • I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age. -- Stephen Fry
  • The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature"¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love. -- Thomas M. Disch
  • No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls. -- David Brainerd
  • You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul. -- Henry Rollins
  • What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned. -- Nick Laird
  • Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome -- Ayumi Hamasaki
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