Passion Quotes - Page 40

• How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.

  Clara Schumann

  Artist, Fire, Enthusiasm

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• idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Distance, Light, White

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Motivation is the key to success in whatever you're doing in life. It comes a lot easier when you're doing something you love and have passion for. My goal is to have a good time and a hot run. And I'm not afraid of disappointment -- it only makes me work harder.

  Missy Giove

  Running, Motivation, Disappointment

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• Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Blind, Guides

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• Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

  Vera Brittain

  Work, Careers, Sides

  Vera Brittain (1947). “On becoming a writer”

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• [The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Pregnancy, Names, Wife

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• Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

  Christina Stead

  Money, Jealous, Secret

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind; the source of the truest pleasures, the fountain of the sublimest and most perfect happiness.

  Mary Collyer

  Order, Perfect, Soul

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• Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Anger, Pride, Men

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• Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Soul, Backgrounds, Background Music

  Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.

  Lee Child

  New York, Children, Book

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• Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work.

  Edward Jenks

  Real, Men, Skills

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Strong, Men, Numbers

  Tadeusz Borowski (1976). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

  Georgette Leblanc

  Roots, Reason, Born

  Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”

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• We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Moving, Heart

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• Nature formed me fierce.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Fierce, Intensity

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1816). “Glenarvon ...”, p.197

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• I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Heart, Judgment, Dangerous

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1822). “Graham Hamilton”, p.5

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• Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Jobs, Earth, Change For The Better

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

  Monique Wittig

  Letting Go, Intelligence, Feels

  Monique Wittig (1987). “Across the Acheron”, Dufour Editions

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• I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!

  Dave Sitek

  Song, Believe, Love Is

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• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  Samina Baig

  Climbing, Empowering, Mountain

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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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• You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.

  Corey Taylor

  Artist, Thinking, Musical

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Gardening, Adore, Time Off

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Guitar, Guy

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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