Quotes of: Passionate Keyword

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The Portable John Adams

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.

Passionate Choice

I’m married, honey. My social life consists of work, church, taxiing the kids around and trying to schedule sex with my husband at least once a month.

Passion to Die For

You are never late in the pursuit of the dreams. Once you recognised your dreams and visions. You must reach out passionately to fulfill them.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Comparison is waste of energy. Every individual is unique with unique talents. Find your passion and live your best life.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful.

Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don’t --Alvin Ailey

Passion and Pain

The dream that wakened me pushed at the veil of consciousness but could not burst through, and I was left wondering what I had known just a moment before.

Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

Every answer I seek lies within me. Any outward seeking for my answers can only take me as far as my inner self permits.

Passion, Perseverance and Prayer

Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life.

The Passion

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.

The Passion

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Pot-Bouille

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

A Treatise of Human Nature

This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven That does afflict our natures.

Unknown

Everyone has fantasies and the variations in these visions of passion vary widely. It is a natural experience that occurs in every human being. Having a rich fantasy life is not only enjoyable, but psychologically "normal.

WHITE

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

When you're in the zone of your purpose with passion...time stands still.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman