Quotes About Passions

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.