Passion Quotes - page 4

I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands. (George Bernard Shaw)
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. View quote
Maya Angelou
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view. View quote
Joseph Addison
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. View quote
Thom Gunn
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. View quote
John Fowles
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying. View quote
Sue Grafton
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. View quote
George Santayana
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. View quote
George Etherege
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. (Oscar Wilde)
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. View quote
Peter Shaffer
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. View quote
Bertrand Russell
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. View quote
George Chapman
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. View quote
Gregory Benford
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at the peril of being judged not to have lived. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. View quote
David Hume
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? (Virginia Woolf)
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. View quote
Plutarch
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? View quote
Helen Hunt Jackson
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. View quote
Barbra Streisand