Quotes About Passion

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.