Quotes About Passions

With the name of Jesus, or with sincere thought on Jesus, a great power is united: it drives away passions, forbids demons, and fills the heart with heavenly stillness and joy.

Friend, we are all human, and the bit of sense any one of us might have is of little or no use when the passions rage and by the constraints of being human we are put under duress." [...] And we parted, not having understood one other. But then here on earth no one ever easily understands anyone else.

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.

My younger passions are still listening as I age.

What is there to be found of that gravity, humility, meekness, piety or charity requisite to so glorious a pretence?... But a perpetual eructation there is of humane passions, a vain ostentation of mistaken learning, and a causeless picking of controversie.

Our passions are true phœnixes: as the old burn out, the new straight rise up out of the ashes.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil — to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them... Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one — through their excess.

He wondered how men could live till they were seventy if they endured such passions as he had known that fifteenth summer, and although he knew many things...he did not even guess that men are able to live because slowly, one by one, they snuff out the fires of spring until only embers burn in white dignity, in loneliness, and often in cold despair.

Truth is nothing if not unchangeable, and in so far as a man takes his stand upon Truth does he become steadfast in virtue, does he rise superior to his passions and emotions and changeable personality.

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.

Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times!

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

I don't play golf and I don't collect stamps. I don't ride horses. I don't go mountain hiking, I don't go star gazing. I don't do any of that.

Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.

My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.