Quotes About Passion

I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

The spoken word, if hurled forth with eloquence, enthusiasm, and fire, could never be erased from the human soul.

I believe anyone could light a cigarette from the sparks that fly from your eyes!

go off the deep end

Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

Orion to holly : im just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may i say young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction

Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

Calm, Butler told himself. Passion is the enemy of efficiency.

I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction.

Meervoudige persoonlijkheid, waandenkbeelden, dwangneurose. Ik heb ze allemaal, maar ik ben vooral gek op jou. - Orion/Artemis

There are those who believe that true love is humankind's greatest motivator. Those people are sweet but completely wrong.

Passion is the enemy of efficiency.

Weet je, juffrouw Holly, je ziet er heel dramatisch uit zo met dat vuur achter je. Heel aantrekkelijk als ik zo vrij mag zijn. Ik weet dat je een moment passionné met Artemis hebt gehad...' … Foaly nam als eerste weer het woord. 'Wat sta je daar nou te kijken, kapitein Short? Wat gaat er op dit moment door je hoofd? Niet nadenken, gewoon zeggen.

How do I love thee?" wondered Orion. "Let me see. I love thee passionately and eternally . . . obviously eternally— that goes without saying." Holly blinked sweat from her eyes. "Is he serious?" she called over her shoulder to Foaly. "Oh, absolutely," said the centaur, his voice juddering along with the pod's motion. "If he asks you to look for birthmarks, say no immediately.

So, even if the LEP did board my shuttle, they would not find whatever it is I am choosing to smuggle. Which in this case is a jar of chocolate truffles. Hardly illegal, but the cooler is full. Chocolate truffles are my passion, you know. All that time I was away, truffles were one of two things I craved. The other was revenge.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.

One person likes tending to his farm, another to his horse; I like to daily monitor my self-improvement.

Whatever your vocation, pursue it wholeheartedly. Consider, choose, and commit.

and following your ideals is the only thing worth dying for.

I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.58

For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic anarchism, has become the core of the value system in the USA.