Passion Quotes
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Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
Esther Perel
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Principle is a passion for truth.
William Hazlitt
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I love a bit of passion.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
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I have such a crush on Tony Robbins and his passion, empathy, and sheer talent.
Krysten Ritter
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
Jane Pauley
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
George Bernard Shaw
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Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.
D. H. Lawrence
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The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.
David O. Russell
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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
William Hazlitt
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The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.
W. H. Auden
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But a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited-a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage- a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.
George Eliot
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What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.
Clara Hughes
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The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
William Hazlitt
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It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.
Johnny Galecki
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What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion - how they choose to package that is their prerogative.
Caroline Ghosn
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Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
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My passion is to multiply all that God has given me and, in the process, give it back. And I would like to incite you to do the same. I do not want you to be the seed that fell along the path or was scattered in rocky places or was choked by weeds.
Bob Buford
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You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.
Steve Jobs
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While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.
Barack Obama
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Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.
C. S. Lewis
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
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Fashion is a real passion in my family. I never even realised it was something glamorous until much later. For me, it was my family's job.
Margherita Missoni
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Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.
Marion Cotillard
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When I was little, I didn’t really have a passion for dancing, but when I was about 9 years old, I knew it was something I wanted to keep doing.
Mackenzie Ziegler