#passion

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#choose #compassion #future #ideology #ignorance

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#mind #obscurity #out #passion #singling

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself. ↗

— Michael Richards

#comes #confront #even #even now #fires

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#continual #good #good man #his #life

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#compassionate #ought #same #thing #virtuous

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company. ↗

— Pat Riley

#coach #company #considered #day-to-day #did

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#left #left wing #middle #motivated #now

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#passions #reason

Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#often #passions #rather #than #vices