I passionately hate the idea of being
with it, I think an artist has always
to be out of step with his time.
?Orson Welles
Most people are other people. Their
thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.
?Oscar Wilde
The happiness of a man in this life
does not consist in the absence but
in the mastery of his passions.
?Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I simple cannot understand the passion
that some people have for making
themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and
then boasting about it afterwards.
?Patricia Moyes
When the habitually even-tempered
suddenly fly into a passion, that
explosion is apt to be more impressive
than the outburst of the
most violent amongst us.
?Margery Allingham
Be still when you have nothing to
say; when genuine passion moves
you, say what you've got to say,
and say it hot.
?D H Lawrence
It is easier to exclude harmful passions
than to rule them, and to deny them
admittance than to control them
after they have been admitted.
?Seneca
Mortal lovers must not try to remain
at the first step; for lasting passion
is the dream of a harlot and from
it we wake in despair.
?C S Lewis
Nor do not saw the air too much with
your hand, thus, but use all gently. For
in the very torrent, tempest, and as
I may say, whirlwind of passion, you
must acquire and beget a temperance
that may give it smoothness.
?William Shakespeare
Wine gives courage and makes
men more apt for passion.
?Ovid
What the public wants is the image
of passion, not passion itself.
?Roland Barthes
Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to grow.
?Anthony J D'Angelo
Never let your persistence and passion
turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
?Anthony J D'Angelo
Every man without passions has within him
no principle of action, nor motive to act.
?Claude A Helvetius
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion,
history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
?Honore De Balzac
From their experience or from the recorded experience
of others (history), men learn only what their passions
and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
?Aldous Huxley
Passion holds up the bottom of the universe
and genius paints up its roof.
?Chang Ch'ao
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood
that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
?Paul Eldridge
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism;
if the former predominates it is passion exalted
and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
?C C Colton
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.
?Mozart
Without passion man is a mere latent force
and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of
the iron before it can give forth it's spark.
?Henri-Frederic Amiel
Life is action and passion; therefore it is required
of a man that he should share the passion and action
of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
?Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
