Quotes on the topic: Passion


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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.


Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.


I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.


I try to find some time for my horses. 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.


It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.


There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.


I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.


I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.


The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.


On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.


Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.


How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.


The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.


A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.


I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.


If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.


The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.


Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.


The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.


Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.