Quotes About Passions

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!

Artificial passions" could be easily stoked, he wrote, raising the temperature. A self-absorbed president, catering to the "worst caprices" of his supporters, could easily distract their attention from plodding matters of governance, and whip their enthusiasms into a frenzy, especially if he divided his supporters and his critics into "hostile camps.

Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may be being a lawyer, it may be making a beautiful cabinet, it may be being a spectacular dry cleaner. It could be anything. We all have gifts in different areas.

I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Problem is not aggression. It is lack of discipline. A person can be aggressive and still be constructive in society if she controls her passions.

There are those who say that to know God you must overcome all earthly passions. Yet to understand and accept them is enough. What you resist persists. What you look at disappears.

Whoever considers the past and the present will readily observe that all cities and all peoples are and ever have been animated by the same desires and the same passions; so that it is easy, by diligent study of the past, to foresee what is likely to happen in the future in any republic, and to apply those remedies that were used by the ancients, or, not finding any that were employed by them, to devise new ones from the similarity of the events.

I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

Blind adherence to an absolute leader, especially one who permits violence, hands followers a license to unleash hidden, prohibited lusts and passions usually kept locked within the human heart. It permits followers to kill in the name of God.

In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by being baptized with the name of piety.

Every guy can basically be boiled down to what he wants and what he's afraid of.

me había topado con la afirmación de Carpócrates según la cual, para liberarnos de la tiranía de los ángeles, señores del cosmos, es necesario perpetrar toda clase de ignominias, saldando todas las deudas que hemos contraído con el universo y con nuestro cuerpo, porque sólo cometiendo todos los actos el alma puede liberarse de sus pasiones y reencontrar la pureza originaria.