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Quotes About Passion

Love is many things, none of them logical.
~ William Goldman
Do you love me, Westley? Is that it?" He couldn't believe it. "Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. If
~ William Goldman
She fell fast and she fell hard, but what did that matter, since she would have gladly dropped a thousand feet onto a bed of nails if Westley had been waiting at the bottom. Down
~ William Goldman
I write out of revenge
~ William Goldman
Can you guess what I'm doing? Cutting my heart out. You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I—what could be more just than that?
~ William Goldman
Has it got any sports in it?" "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles." "Sounds
~ William Goldman
Sono il tuo Principe e non sono così male... Come puoi preferire la morte piuttosto che sposarmi?» «Perché» replicò Buttercup «matrimonio significa amore, e non è il mio passatempo preferito».
~ William Goldman
if you do not kiss my mouth, Inigo Montoya of Spain, I will more than likely die.
~ William Goldman
Has it got any sports in it?" "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles." "Sounds okay," I said, and I kind of closed my eyes. "I'll do my best to stay awake . . . but I'm awful sleepy, Daddy . . . .
~ William Goldman
Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only, my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' She looked at Humperdinck. Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him? It does seem a bit forward, the Prince admitted. It doesn't leave him a great deal of room to maneuver.
~ William Goldman
En mi cuerpo no hay sitio más que para tí.
~ William Goldman
Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.
~ William Hazlitt
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant satisfaction to the thought. This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.
~ William Hazlitt
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
~ William James
how infinitely passionate a thing religion at its highest flights can be. Like love, like wrath, like hope, ambition, jealousy, like every other instinctive eagerness and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else.
~ William James
I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.
~ China Mieville
When a man is crazy about a woman only she can cure him.
~ Chinese proverb
I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
~ Chinua Achebe
But like all the other women I have referred to, she expressed herself with passionate and disarming effrontery.
~ Chinua Achebe
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
~ Chinua Achebe
The problem is this: Often the heart and mind disagree. Fervently.
~ Chip Heath
So if you reach the Riders of your team but not the Elephants, team members will have understanding without motivation. If you reach their Elephants but not their Riders, they'll have passion without direction. In
~ Chip Heath