Quotes About Passion

You can never be done with music. No more than you can be done with breathing. The day you quit is the day you die.

A burst of passion is a fine rousing thing upon occasion, Helen, and a flood of tears is marvelously affecting, but, when indulged too often, they are both deuced plaguy things for spoiling one's beauty and tiring out one's friends.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

I'd kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.

With men passion is all at the beginning and with women it is all along.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

All that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.

Nay, if there's room for poets in the world A little overgrown, (I think there is) Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's, -- this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles

There, the brows of mild repression--there, the lips of silent passion, Curved like an archer's bow to send the bitter arrows out.

For an instructed eye loves to see where the brush has dipped twice in lustrous colour, has lain insistingly along a favorite outline, dwelt lovingly in a grand shadow--for these "too muches" for the everybody's picture, are so many helps to the making out the real painter's picture as he had it in his brain.

What I have printed gives no knowledge of me--it evidences abilities of various kinds, if you will--and a dramatic sympathy with certain modifications of passion ... But I never have begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end--'R.B. a poem'.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

If you can give your son or daughet only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Say this much for big league baseball — it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Io commentai scherzosamente che la passione per i giganti è, in genere, un sintomo di declino: un'epoca che scambia l'Ercole Farnese per un ideale era destinata a finire male.

I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

Desire is an end in itself: it seeks only more desire, not fixation on a specific object.29

Lacan even goes so far as to classify ignorance as a passion greater than love or hate: a passion not to know.

One might say that, for Stendhal, it is the uncertainty of the metaphor of love – of whether the beloved will become in her turn a lover – that keeps the lover interested. If he becomes certain of her love for him, he might well become blasé. Without doubt, without constant vacillation and uncertainty orchestrated by the woman's sudden moods and fits of bad temper, the lover would become complacent and lose his passion.

where they love they do not desire and where they desire they cannot love" (p. 183).