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"Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission."
"Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living."
"Our true passions are selfish."
"If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion."
"Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion."
"Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered."
"The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God."
"Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them."
"What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow."
"Great ambition is the passion of a great character."
"I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry."
"Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."
"I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over."
"Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals."
"Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion."
"Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety."
"The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without."
"Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues."
"And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet."
"World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated."
