#passions

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ↗

— George Santayana

#grafted #green #inveterate #most #old

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#because #consequences #desire #disagree #i

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good. ↗

— Dan Savage

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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing. ↗

— Omar Sharif

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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#always #i #passions #ruled

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#beings #creatures #crowd #ear #eye

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#god #man #passions #reason

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#action #annihilate #annihilating #desires #every

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eternity #literature #literature-quotes #long-ago

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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