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Passions change, politics are immutable. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Passions are the gales of life. -- Alexander Pope
Passions are generally roused from great conflict. -- Livy
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. -- Denis Diderot
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. -- Mikhail Lermontov
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness. -- Thomas Hobbes
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding. -- Ben Jonson
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. -- Thomas Hobbes
Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking. -- Martha Roth
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A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds. -- Doug Dorst
Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. -- Andrew Michael Ramsay
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. -- Walter Raleigh
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. -- Joseph Addison
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. -- George Meredith
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions. -- Lindsay Hartley
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.' -- Lindsay Hartley
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. -- Alexander Herzen
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct? -- Honore de Balzac
There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon. -- Lindsay Hartley
We are minor in everything but our passions. -- Elizabeth Bowen
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams. -- Thomas S. Monson
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. -- Nikolai Gogol
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. -- Denis Diderot
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not. -- Deepak Chopra
You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions. -- Jay Weatherill
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. -- Carl Jung
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. -- Lao Tzu
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. -- Alexander Hamilton
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. -- Bertrand Russell
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. -- Lord Byron
I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that. -- Renee Fleming
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. -- Bernard Baruch
One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones. -- Sunidhi Chauhan
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it. -- Dennis Prager
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface. -- David O. Russell
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? -- Dennis Prager
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. -- Kiesza
I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good. -- Dan Savage
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. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice. -- Tabatha Coffey
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. -- Buddha
Our passions are ourselves. -- Anatole France
Pursuit of desires, divine passions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great passions are incurable diseases. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our true passions are selfish. -- Stendhal
Mobs have passions, not brains. -- Dan Simmons
I love sharing my passions. -- Rush Limbaugh
I love sharing my passions. -- Rush Limbaugh
True passions do not deprive love. -- Akiane Kramarik
Hate and love are reciprocal passions. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hate and love are reciprocal passions. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In music the passions enjoy themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sloth is all passions the most powerful. -- Samuel Beckett
I tend to obsess over my passions. -- Kiesza
Vices are often habits rather than passions. -- Antoine Rivarol
Without passions you have no experience whatever. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What passions cannot music raise or quell? -- John Dryden
I don't have hobbies. I have passions. -- Pablo Casals
Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage. -- Josiah Royce
Musical theater is one of my passions. -- Patrick Wilson
Men of cold passions have quick eyes. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Keep all your passions in your life. -- Austin Kleon
Love is only one of many passions. -- Samuel Johnson
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. -- Thomas Fuller
Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions. -- Mason Cooley
This purity is attained through conquering the passions. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
The hunger of passions is the greatest disease. -- Gautama Buddha
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest. -- Alfred Douglas
Believe in your passions and act on them. -- Zainab Salbi
Wonder is the first of all the passions. -- Rene Descartes
The passions are the voice of the body. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is the passions that do and undo everything. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions -- Stephen Covey
You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you. -- Jeff Bezos
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. -- Mason Cooley
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason. -- Jonathan Swift
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. -- Antoine Rivarol
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. -- Epictetus
Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves, -- Ralph Klein
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. -- William Shakespeare
The more passions you have the happier you'll be -- Dennis Prager
Love is the most selfish of all the passions. -- Alexandre Dumas
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Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors. -- Antoine Rivarol
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. -- Maria Edgeworth
Enthusiasm and passions are the fundamental ingredients of all success. -- Debasish Mridha
Core passions and aspirations should be consistent and in sync. -- Lorii Myers
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions. -- Erwin McManus
I want people to realize their life's dreams and passions. -- Rush Limbaugh
Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great. -- Leona Lewis
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess. -- Truth Devour
I want people to realize their life's dreams and passions. -- Rush Limbaugh
The passions of the young are vices in the old. -- Joseph Joubert
You will be remembered in life only for your passions! -- John C. Maxwell
Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul. -- Patrick Dixon

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