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Quotes About Passion

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
~ Peter S. Beagle
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
~ Philip Larkin
I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
~ Philippa Gregory
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
~ Om Puri
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
~ Ouida
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men would still really like to own a train set.
~ Rita Rudner
If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.
~ Hiroyuki Takei
Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.
~ Homer
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
~ Honore de Balzac
Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.
~ Hope Solo
In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
~ Huston Smith
Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
~ Irving Stone
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
~ Ismail Merchant
There are still a few men who love desperately.
~ J. D. Salinger
It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.
~ Jack London
I think Tiger Woods is a determined young man who really wants to play.
~ Jack Nicklaus