Quotes About Passion

The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

I got tiger blood man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

You're insane, but you're my kind of man.

What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.