#passions

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#life #passions #writing #life

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#anger #being #every #feeling #good

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hurricane #loves #middle #middle age #opera

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ↗

— Lord Byron

#comes #god #high #made #out

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

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

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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