Quotes About Passions

but we no more choose our passions than our features or complexion.

the founders believed a president should cool the passions of the people, not inflame them, because the national temperature would have a direct effect on the health of the republic. A president who was acting presidential would constrain his or her behavior accordingly.

If a president whipped up the crowd, "the passions…not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment," wrote Madison in Federalist No. 49. "But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government."37

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

Keep all your passions in your life.

Every art that could inflame the passions and touch the interests of men has been essayed," Washington complained in early April 1788.

Madison's examples suggested a particular concern with factions united by economic or religious passions. Through state-issued paper money, he observed, debtor factions had devalued property rights.

Religion, too, he warned, especially when "kindled into enthusiasm," is a "force like that of other passions" and "may become a motive to oppression.

Man hath no fate except past deeds, No Hell but what he makes, no Heaven too high For those to reach whose passions sleep subdued.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Hobbies and interests are often aspects of a human being which most clearly define his individuality, and make him the person he is.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

The greatest crimes are committed ... for obtaining or securing the objects of ill-regulated desires, and senseless, because insatiable, passions.

The wickedness of man is boundless; it seems at first as if a trifle would content him, but his passions invigorate by gratification; always indulged, always craving, and continually preying on him who feeds him.

For me, I kind of just follow my passions and follow what I love to do and use my free time to kind of answer those questions and go through my bad moods and maybe a little light case of depression.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.

Growing up, I didn't like basketball. I played football and baseball and ran some track.