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Quotes About Passion

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
~ Rumi
I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.
~ Demetri Martin
Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]
~ Zadie Smith
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
~ Anne Rice
Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
~ Bear Bryant
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
~ John Eldredge
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
~ Quentin Crisp
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
~ Man Ray
All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.
~ Rumi
She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires
~ Nick Bantock
I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.
~ Simon McBurney
Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.
~ William Butler Yeats
When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.
~ Jessica Sorensen
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.
~ Doris Lessing
I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.
~ Unknown
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
~ Suzanne Farrell
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
~ Sigmund Freud
Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.
~ Marie de France
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
~ David Hume