#passions

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. ↗

— Bette Davis

#considered #drive #fingers #fist #gathered

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#chieftain #command #fashion #find #give

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ↗

— Edmund Waller

#give #more #passions #quiet #seas

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#every #fleets #folly #home #loaded

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#follow #follow your dreams #more #much #our dreams

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. ↗

— George Will

#emancipation #his #individual #passions #politics

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland. ↗

— Terri Windling

#always #british #celtic #celtic music #college

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#generally #man #natural #passions #proud

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#considered #conveniently #destiny #enough #ever