Passion Quotes - Page 38

• ... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Mary Heaton Vorse, Dee Garrison (1985). “Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse”, Monthly Review Pr

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• It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.

  Haile Gerima

  People, Hook, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To do panels where you get to interact with your fans, in a really intimate, awesome way, and to let them ask all of the questions, is fun to me and it shows them that you care about their opinions, their thoughts, and their passion for your project.

  Zachary Levi

  Fun, Fans, Care

  "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

  Robert Plant

  Mean, Years, People

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Use, Stuff, Given

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.58

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• One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

  John Ray

  Health, Mean, Mind

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• I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

  Aerin Lauder

  Mother, Children, Book

  Interview with Michael Kors, aspenpeak-magazine.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Passion is more important than justice.

  Carson McCullers

  Justice, Important

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Littles, Arguing, Born

  Mary Russell Mitford (1828). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.160

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• He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Hypocrite, Honest, Should

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• Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

  David Hume

  Drama, Magic, Movement

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.258

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• It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

  John Tillotson

  Order, Lust, Victory

  John Tillotson (1720). “Works”, p.121

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• Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

  David Hume

  Friendship, Long, Causes

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.161, VM eBooks

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• Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

  David Hume

  Jealousy, Violence, Affection

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1298, Delphi Classics

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• Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.

  David Hume

  Vanity, Degrees, Mixtures

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.66, VM eBooks

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• It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

  David Hume

  Imagination, Affection, Certain

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.697, Delphi Classics

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• Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Two, Liberty, And Love

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.159

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• The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Selfish, Individual Happiness, Rights

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Memories, Long, Desire

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.

  Glenda Jackson

  Important, Want, Matter

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• There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sadness, Men, Issues

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• Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Voice, Giving, Rectitude

  Thomas Chalmers (1857). “On Natural Theology”, p.327

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• What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life's work. I don't believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Real, Believe, Empowerment

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• The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Devil, Looks, Noble

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2006). “The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers”, p.231, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

  John Tillotson

  Strong, Men, Heaven

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