#passion

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#dominated #family #father #mother #passionate

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#anything #because #devoted #fought #great

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country. ↗

— John Linder

#became #began #beginnings #britain #call

I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true. ↗

— Diana Lynn

#die #even #eye #forget #hold

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#cherish #everything #invites #lives #me

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#been #everybody #great #great passions #happens

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#found #less #life #living #passion

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#actions #bad #because #built #does

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do. ↗

— Teena Marie

#enough #god #i #i do #imagination