#passions

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#exaggerate #only #passions

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#feed #flame #frame #his #love

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#american #eclectic #follow #going #hurts

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#cast #distress #emotions #goddess #great

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#bent #claimed #deceived #dupes #men

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. ↗

— David Hume

#never #obey #office #only #other

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#boisterous #children #commerce #degrading #despotism

Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#often #passions #rather #than #vices

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. ↗

— Richard Steele

#only #others #passions #pleasing #solitude

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#career #does #getting #his #i