Passion Quotes - Page 170

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory...The wilderness will take hold of you. It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into a man...You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it's really fulfilling.

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Follow the truth to life and love what you do... Be passionate about it to the point where you’re willing to do anything for it.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds.