#passions

We are minor in everything but our passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#minor #our #passions

Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of. ↗

— Sabrina Lloyd

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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ↗

— John Milton

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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#known #literature #man #passions #sweetest

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. ↗

— William Osler

#man #natural #natural man #only #passions

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#actor #always #amount #because #certain

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

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#continual #good #good man #his #life

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. ↗

— Sallust

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