If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I tend to obsess over my passions.

- Kiesza

Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.

- Jake Pavelka

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

- Joseph Joubert

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

- John Dryden

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

- H. P. Lovecraft

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

- Gene Tierney

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

- Faye Dunaway

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are the gales of life.

- Alexander Pope

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

- Epictetus

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

- Elizabeth Taylor

We are minor in everything but our passions.

- Elizabeth Bowen

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

- Dan Hill

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

- Deepak Chopra

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

- Carl Jung

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

- Antoine Rivarol

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

- Andrew O'Hagan

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

- Alphonse de Lamartine