Passion Quotes - page 3

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. (Kahlil Gibran)
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. View quote
Ralph Cudworth
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. View quote
Anthony Powell
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. View quote
Ben Carson
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day. View quote
Marcus Buckingham
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. View quote
John Locke
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. (Plutarch)
Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid. View quote
Barbara Broccoli
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing. View quote
Lakshmi Mittal
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. View quote
James K. Polk
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. View quote
William James
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. View quote
Blaise Pascal
If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force. View quote
Marissa Mayer
Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. View quote
Edmund Burke
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. View quote
Roland Barthes
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity. View quote
Frank Gehry
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