Quotes About Passion

Jefferson sensed that, as with lovers and intimate friends, there can often be no middle ground between engagement and estrangement. In the presence of passion, or of former passions, acquaintance is impossible. It is all or nothing, for once affections have cooled it is very difficult to bring them back to a middling temperature. In such cases human nature tends to rekindle the flames to their old force, or consign them to perpetual chill.

Lincoln would come to see democracy as a work in progress, a process in which reason took its chances against prejudice and passion.

Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as "the capability of a people to govern themselves.

Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as "the capability of a people to govern themselves." He worried about trouble coming from the many as well as the few—or even the one, in the form of a demagogue who might try to profit from lawlessness and distrust.

knows how this will end: but assuredly in one extreme or the other. There can be no medium between those who have loved so much.

At Monticello he planned to return to farming and gardening with passionate zeal.

What we do, when we fuck up, we don't lose our job. We lose our vocation.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they man.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

I know a lot of artists. The greatest loves of all their lives are their creations. Unfortunately most of us don't have that kind of talent, so we have to make do with falling in love with real people.

I live and breathe art",' said Phoebe. ' "What other people refer to as 'the real world' has always seemed pale and insipid by comparison".

Obsessions, of course, can never be shared.

This book is full of passion. Full of anger, anyway. If it communicates anything at all, it's how much I hate these people, how evil they are, how much they've spoiled everything, with their vested interests and their influence and their privilege and their stranglehold on all the centres of power; how they've got us all cornered, how they've pretty well carved up the whole bloody country between them.

God's purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God's glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

The interesting people are always immoderate.

He may not have been exactly what she wanted in a man, but he was unsurpassable in providing the rabid fandom which, at the time, she needed even more than romance.

She wore an expression of love so naked it seemed to Pip almost obscene.

Sometimes you imagine something for so long, you find that you have no choice but to do it.

Clem didn't know a man who worked more passionately for social justice than his father, and when you really loved someone, the whole person, you simply accepted the little things you might have wished were different. He could see eyes being rolled when his father waxed religious at a fellowship meeting, but Becky herself rolled her eyes like that. It didn't mean she didn't love him.

that people were cruel to what they were afraid of loving.

young gentleman with whom she's been osculating on

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.