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Quotes About Passion

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
~ Aristotle
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
~ Arthur Helps
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
~ Bill Veeck
If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.
~ Billie Burke
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
~ Bob Dylan
I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.
~ Carl Crawford
I'd like to be a song and dance man.
~ Walter Cronkite
Do all men kill the things they do not love?
~ William Shakespeare
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
~ Homer
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.
~ Johann Gottfried Seume
Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.
~ John Wesley
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
~ Joseph Addison
I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one
~ Karen Morley
A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?
~ Laozi
Man desires, woman is desired.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.
~ Christopher Lee
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
~ Claude Monet
The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.
~ David Copperfield
Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.
~ David Lloyd George
A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
~ E. W. Scripps
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
~ Edgar Allan Poe