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"You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him."
"When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy."
"The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment."
"Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless."
"I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot."
"There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?"
"I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first."
"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."
"What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path."
"It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us."
"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."
"Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise."
"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral."
"You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion."
"From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions."
"The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned."
"Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable."
"Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net."
"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
"The passions of the young are vices in the old."
