#passion

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#gale #life #ocean #passion #reasons

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

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#bad thing #i #passion #see #thing

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living. ↗

— Moliere

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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. ↗

— Moliere

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The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#am #because #complications #dealing #disturbed

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day. ↗

— Estelle Morris

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