Passion

(243 votes)   I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(239 votes)   The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(228 votes)   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
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(201 votes)   Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Thomas Adams
1752-1804, American Statesman

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(193 votes)   Not a Woman has passed my lips that i did not fear in the throws of passion. At times i have had need to restrain them to ensure I could leave uninjured, as they conspired to pull me ever harder into their shaking writhing clawing thigh clenching ecstacy.

hugh attwood
Lover 2007

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(152 votes)   Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse De Lamartine
1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian

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(148 votes)   A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(105 votes)   People will respect you more if you are happy with who you are

Mithra Krishnan
Cares for everyone including herself

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(105 votes)   Someone would only care for you if you are happy with who you are

Mithra Krishnan
Cares for everyone including herself

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(86 votes)   I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

John Wooden
1910-, American Basketball Coach

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(73 votes)   Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(70 votes)   Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Joseph Wood Krutch
1893-1970, American Writer, Critic, Naturalist

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(63 votes)   Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Meredith
1828-1909, British Author

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(61 votes)   He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(57 votes)   Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown
1944-, American Writer

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