#passion

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

#laws #nation #obeys #passion #powerful

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#itself #passion #people #right #setting

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#being #better #cracked #definitely #get

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee! ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#romantic #romantic

For what was your gesture? An act of pure love for Jesus particularly. It was an act so completely focused upon the Christ that not a dram of worldly benefit was gained thereby. Nothing could justify the spillage of some three hundred days' wages, except love alone. [...] The disciples, in fact, were offended by an act that produced nothing, accomplished nothing, fed no poor, served no need. They reproached you as a wastrel. They were offended by the absurd, an act devoted absolutely to love, to love alone. But Jesus called it 'beautiful. ↗

— Walter Wangerin Jr.

#the-passion #beauty

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beauty #boxer #boxing #doing #events

Music is passionate. It's love for me. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#me #music #passionate

I love the passion you go through while you're creating. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#go #i #i love #love #passion

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#dispassionate #father #men #most #rational

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. ↗

— William Nicholson

#class #compassion #lives #merit #middle