Passionate Quotes

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. (Marlene Dietrich)
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. View quote
Susan Sontag
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. View quote
George Steiner
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. View quote
Marguerite Duras
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees. View quote
Karel Čapek
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. (Rufus Choate)
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
I prayfor fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Faith is a passionate intuition. View quote
William Wordsworth
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. View quote
William Goldman
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. View quote
Frank Luntz
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good... View quote
Eva Ibbotson
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's. (Steve Case)
I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do. View quote
Teena Marie
The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results. View quote
Salma Hayek
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints. View quote
William James
I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner. View quote
Steve Irwin