passion

1.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

- Maurois, Andre

2.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

- Eliot, George

3.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

- Du Coeur

4.

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

5.

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

- Matt Groening

6.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

7.

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

- George Sand

8.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

- Johnson, Samuel

9.

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

10.

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king

- Milton, John

11.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

- Hoffer, Eric

12.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

- Fuller, Thomas

13.

The lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

- Khalil Gibran

14.

Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.

- Ellen DeGeneres

15.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

- Plato

16.

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

- Joubert, Joseph

17.

Wild, wild wind, wilt thou never cease thy sighing? Dark, dark night, wilt thou never wear away? Cold, cold Church, in thy death sleep lying, Thy Lent is past, thy Passion here, but not thine Easter Day.

18.

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

- Bronte, Charlotte

19.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core.

- William Shakespeare

20.

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

- Alexander Hamilton