Quotes About Passion

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.

Fascinatio nugacitatis - Pentru ca patima s? nu ne vat?me, s? tr?im ca ÅŸi cum n-am avea decât opt zile de tr?it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knoweth not.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El corazón tiene razones que la razón ignora (Blaise Pascal)

The heart has reasons of which the mind knows nothing.

I love to run my fingers o'er the keys, the ivories.

If there's one thing that every founder and leader in this book has in common with the others, it is a passion for what their companies do. They love it, and they have a burning desire to share it with other people. They thrive on the joy of contributing something great and unique to the world.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.

Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.

I don't believe you. You're a liar. Play it fucking loud!

Passion rules the arrow that flies.

If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime

She was the most erotic thing I'd ever seen. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blood Italian. The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves. We started talking and my head started to spin. Cupid's arrow had whistled past my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard.

The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn't help but lose your passion for dumbness.

I am mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

After Lou heard my Guthrie song, he asked me if I ever wrote any songs about baseball players.

I could never sit in a room and just play all by myself. I needed to play for people and all the time. You can say I practiced in public.

Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write poems I said. Why haven't I heard of you? Because I write poems I said.

The wise will go upstairs, undo buttons and hair, fold themselves within the covenant of flesh and make love wilder than any weather. — Bob Hicok, from "Weather," The Legend of Light (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995)

those who want the lifestyle of 'author'. They never get published. The ones who want to BE an author make it.

Tacitus said: 'Chief among the forces affecting folly is lust for power, the most flagrant of all the passions.' Once one treads in the halls of power