Quotes About Passions

We call them feelings because we feel them.

Suddenly, quite miraculously, you are a grown-up beautiful woman. You look so much like your mother, but you are still uniquely you. You have thoughts I will never know. Desires I will never understand. Friends I will never meet. Passions I will never share. You have a life. You have an entire world in front of you.

The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.