PASSION QUOTES IV
quotations about passion
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Timoleon
Discover your divine assignment and you have no reason to retreat. Discover your passion and you laugh in the face of defeat.
KIRK NUGENT
Pursue Your Passion
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.
DOROTHY PARKER
"Unfortunate Coincidence", Not So Deep as a Well
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
JOHN DRYDEN
St. Cecilia's Day
Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
Passion makes a burlesque of the features.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Passion is hugely contagious, while the ersatz variety leaves everyone switched off. It also leaves many a lad with a potato clock he doesn't want and can't palm off on his sister for love nor money.
ROWAN PELLING
"Giving science toys to boys is not the worst of it -- we all secretly try to control our kids with gifts", The Telegraph, December 11, 2016
Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
The Virginians
When the mind is clouded with passions, it is odds but a man misses his way.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
We condemn generally the passions of others by other passions either like or unlike.
PASQUIER QUESNEL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Passion is oxygen of the soul.
BILL BUTLER
attributed, Gauraw, August 29, 2013
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
PAUL NEWMAN
attributed, Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
Passion costs me too much to bestow it upon every trifle.
THOMAS ADAM
Private Thoughts on Religion
Being passionate is often stated as an important attribute for employees; passion is associated with determination, motivation and having a high degree of self-control. Being emotional, however, has almost a negative mirror effect and is associated with irrationality, instability, ineptitude and a low degree of self-control.
SUNITA SAH
"Having a Meltdown at Work? Blame It on Your Passion", Science Daily, December 12, 2016
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
ALEXANDER POPE
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola