Quotes About Passion

Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

Anger subsides. Love doesn't.

Everyone thinks that hate and love are somehow opposite forces. They are not. They are the same force, facing opposite directions... Love turned the wrong way has killed as many as hate.

I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard.

So many terrible things are done for love," Mab's voice said. "For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire.

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She kissed me again, and I returned it in kind, and it was a liquid, smooth thing, as restrained and desperate as the near-still surface of a rushing river.

He shook his head. "Love killed the dinosaurs, man.

What does a woman need to do, Harry? Rip her clothes off, throw herself on top of you, and shimmy while screaming Do me, baby!? - Thomas Raith

Somewhere along the way, their passion had become bottled anger. The anger had fermented into bitter hatred. Then the hatred had fed upon itself, gnawing away at them over years, even decades, until only a shell of cold iron and colder hate remained.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

Fuel a love spell with rage and you're likely to get some odd side effects, for example.

I wanted to drive her mad with need, to fill my senses with her warmth, her cries, her scent. I wanted to forget everything arrayed against me, even if it was just for a little while, and bare her an inch at a time. The emptiness that her warmth had begun to fill howled at me to let go.

Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

This can only be accomplished by people who live, breathe, eat and sleep what they are doing.... [I am] associated with a large group of knowledgeable, dedicated [people] who eat, breathe, and sleep the world of aeronautics.... Man's objective should be opportunity for greater accomplishment and greater service. The greatest pleasure life has to offer is the satisfaction that flows from... participating in a difficult and constructive undertaking.50

Gente boa precisa ter coisas grandes para fazer, senão leva sua energia criativa para outro lugar.

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Just start at page one and write like a son of a bitch." —Jim Harrison

He's quite a thinker. I stood up and started to take off my clothes. He got down on the floor. We really went to town all evening and I sent him home before midnight.

I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.