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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Blaise Pascal
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,One passion doth expel another still.
George Chapman, Monsieur D'Olive
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Pr
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate Stat
PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seemsThe bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Silent L
Touch passion when it comes your way...It
J. Michael Straczynski
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Aesop
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Margery Allingham
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world...
William Shakespeare, The Life an
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
Eric Hoffer
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
Eugene W. Smith
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.
Roland Barthes
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
Desiderius Erasmus
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
Jean Paul
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Federico Fellini
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
Soren Kierkegaard
