#passion

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#any #attraction #children #compassion #feel

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

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#bred #ceases #certainties #change #doubts

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#biggest #clever #cleverest #idiots #makes

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#child #education #formal #formal education #formed

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#architects #because #believe #effect #enjoy

I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling. ↗

— Ann Romney

#had #i #i can #life #love

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