Quotes About Passion

Are you going to kiss me or not?" He released the jacket. "Not," he rasped. "Then I'll kiss you." Cupping his nape, she drew his head down, but Nate laid his fingertips over her mouth. "Some things you can't take back." Claire lifted his hand. "Some things you don't want to.

We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

Manor laid his head straight on the beating heart. His lips searched for the gently swelling mound above the heart, which was set in motion by the heartbeat. There Manor began to suckle, longing and thirsting, like a baby on a mother's breast.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.

donde yo vacilaría usted se precipita como el toro sobre trapo el rojo.

When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." – Joseph Campbell

get into something that you love, that you have an aptitude for, and where you're totally happy.

in philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed. What matters is not methods or techniques but a sensitivity to problems, and a consuming passion for them; or, as the Greeks said, the gift of wonder.

Oh, I inherited my emotions from Calandria May, and I understand now that each human has a ruling passion, one that serves as the fountainhead from which flow all semblances of happiness, sadness, anger, and joy.

Armiger leaned over her and kissed her cheek. "Which what do I prefer?" "Do you prefer making love or reading?" He voice held a teasing note, but he had learned there were frequently hidden needs behind her teasing questions. "To read is to make love to the world," he said. "But to make love to a woman is to feel like the world is reading you.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

He was one of those people who in all of their feelings and actions seem to be walking along a steep, downhill slope. They lack the strength to stop for a minute, and with each step, they get more and more carried away. Like all of them, Dmitry took this insufficiency of strength for fervency of character and insuperable storminess of passion.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

You, woman, are without a doubt the most senseless female I could have picked to fall in love with.

I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down seemed a logical step.

Hawk was like a man gone mad. He'd hardly slept all night for worrying about her, and here she was, calmly riding back to Fort Laramie and her lover. He longed, at that moment, to put his hands around her slender throat and choke some sense into her.

I don't like the word infatuated. It sounds like something bad, like 'inflicted' or 'incurable,' not to speak of 'inefficient' or 'indulgent.' As if you want to love someone but it goes wrong and you get infatuated instead.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

Adrenaline is my drug of choice.