#pass

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#excess #fire #like #only #passions

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. ↗

— George Etherege

#cannot #death #diseased #endure #grows

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#i #long #narrative #passages #readers

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough. ↗

— Sarah Brady

#common #common sense #country #enough #excited

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #desire #divine #enjoy #every

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. ↗

— John Fahey

#being #dispassionate #explain #greatest #guitarists

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#been #determined #experiences #i #many

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#american #american public #explain #here #i

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#intervals #live #men #passion #reason

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#passion #reason #rebel