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Quotes About Passion

Book lover n. 1. A person devoted to reading 2. One who would rather stay inside and read than go outside and play. 3. Someone who gets lost in a story and loves to dream with open eyes. Beware: never disturb a book lover when he/she is reading. Results can be fatal.
~ Dictionary
Deseo antiguo, deseo reciente, ambos sin saciar y que seguramente no saldrían del ámbito de la obsesión.
~ Didier Decoin
Alors c'est ça l'amour. Cette espèce de truc qui ressemble à un début de grippe, quand on se dit qu'on va morfler un max mais que d'un autre côté ça permet de sécher l'école. Cette envie de sauter au plafond et de rentrer sous terre. Cette sensation d'avoir la honte écrite sur le front, et d'être en même temps le plus fier du monde.
~ Didier van Cauwelaert
The activity will prove to be "peculiar" by leading the active person into Christ's own passion. This activity itself is perpetual suffering and enduring. In it, Christ is suffered by his disciple. If this is not the case, it is not the activity Jesus intended. In this way, the "extraordinary" is the fulfilling of the law, the keeping of the commandments.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We have something to hide. We have secrets, worries, thoughts, hopes, desires, passions which no one else gets to know. We are sensitive when people get near those domains with their questions. And now, against all rules of tact the Bible speaks of the truth that in the end we will appear before Christ with everything we are and were…. And we all know that we could justify ourselves before any human court, but not before this one. Lord, who can justify themselves
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Your attitude toward Scripture can reveal your attitude toward the Savior. When your passion for God's Word runs high, your passion for God does as well.
~ Dillon Burroughs
It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.
~ Dillon Burroughs
When God gives you a passion for a particular cause, there is a reason for it, and that reason is not to keep it to yourself. You are called to be a representative for those in need.
~ Dillon Burroughs
Steve's memory lives on in the zoo he created and the wildlife he protected. No one will ever forget his passion, his dedication, and his message. Wild animals are gorgeous, he said. Respect them. It's their planet, too.
~ Dina Anastasio
No one will ever have loved each other more than we did.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
unless men work at occultism as they work for the prizes of their professions they will not achieve.
~ Dion Fortune
dance floors would bleed from the knife of her dress
~ Dionne Brand
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
~ Dirk Benedict
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
~ Djuna Barnes
The heart of the jealous knows the best and the most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. Fancy gallops to take part in that duel, unconstrained by any certain articulation of the laws of that unseen game.
~ Djuna Barnes
but this is another love—it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop—it rots me away.
~ Djuna Barnes
blood-thirsty with love
~ Djuna Barnes
Dusty books are my one real passion. New books are like young girls--fit for nothing. A secondhand book is like a person who has traveled; it is only when a book has been handled by several persons and has become dirty that it's fit for contemplation.
~ Djuna Barnes
Love is death, come upon with passion; I know, that is why love is wisdom. I love her as one condemned to it.
~ Djuna Barnes
Ah!" he said. "Love, that terrible thing!
~ Djuna Barnes
Amore di donna per una donna... Che insana smania di sofferenza non lenita e di maternità l'ha mai portato alla mente?»
~ Djuna Barnes
Football is the ballet of the masses.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich