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Quotes About Passion

But a lover is dogmatic. To him the world shall be beautiful and pure. When it is not, he ignores it.
~ E.M. Forster
Belief's always right.. It's all right and it's also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?
~ E.M. Forster
One was tired of everything, it seemed. One launched into enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter.
~ E.M. Forster
Now it is all dark. Now Beauty and Passion seem never to have existed. I know. But remember the mountains over Florence and the view...
~ E.M. Forster
You can't build a house on the sand, and passion's sand. We want bed rock …
~ E.M. Forster
Durham no podía esperar. La gente los rodeaba, pero con ojos que se habían vuelto intensamente azules murmuró: —Que te amo. Maurice se escandalizó, se horrorizó. Se estremeció hasta las raíces de su alma burguesa, y exclamó:"¡Oh, maldición!" Las palabras, los gestos, surgían de él antes de que pudiera evitarlo.
~ E.M. Forster
The idealism and the brutality that ran through boyhood had joined at last, and twined into love.
~ E.M. Forster
I shall want to live, I tell you.
~ E.M. Forster
But all that night his body yearned for Alec's, despite him.
~ E.M. Forster
He loved poetry--science was merely an acquisition, which he laid aside when unobserved like his European dress...
~ E.M. Forster
Durham, I love you." He laughed bitterly. "Expand the statement.
~ E.M. Forster
But the lovers get away unpunished and consequently recommend crime.
~ E.M. Forster
Yes, for we fight for more than Love or Pleasure; there is Truth. Truth counts, Truth does count.
~ E.M. Forster
Now the two of us here in the dark have let the fire die slowly down, and it's your body I want to see with the curtains open and the half-moon pressed against the window—your long pale body smoldering on top of the sheet, glowing beside mine while we warm ourselves again in the heavy world of matter, catching fire at the fire we make of our lives. —Eamon Grennan, from "On Fire," Relations: New & Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 1998)
~ Eamon Grennan
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
~ Earl Nightingale
Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See
~ Earl Nightingale
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves.
~ Earl Nightingale
A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.
~ Earl Nightingale
There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.
~ Earnest Hemingway
Zašto da provodim revoluciju kad ne?u mo?i plesati?
~ Ece Temelkuran
Somewhere out there, there's a thing so amazing that you can devote your life to it and never forget how special it is.
~ Ed Finn
People like passion in politics.
~ Ed Gillespie
Arousing him, all gods blast it, despite his anger and worry. Arclath shook his head, managing to free his mouth from hers at last. "Dragon take all!" he gasped. "Will
~ Ed Greenwood
The passion of the church and every follower of Christ should be that all peoples have an opportunity to hear, understand, and respond to the gospel.
~ Ed Stetzer