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Passions Quotes

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Strength Weakness More Passions Than

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship Two Pity Passions Other

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.

Sonia Sotomayor

Struggle Touch Judges Passions Our

Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer's always my priority.

Soccer Always Passions Course Other

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

Acting Pursue Because Passions Other

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

Men Own Treasures Deceived Passions

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Alexander Herzen

Law Facts Logic You More Passions

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Good History Wait Must Passions

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great Rest Fortunate Being Passions

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Failure Control Fault Passions Them

Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.

Toussaint Louverture

Succeed Feet You Avoid Passions He

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Fire Dangerous Through Only Passions

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

Passion Job You Own Your Passions

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music Enjoy Passions Themselves

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Time Stronger Leave Us Passions Our

Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.

Me Now Dancing Where Passions Part

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Good Water Fire Bad Passions Our

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

H. P. Lovecraft

Me Nothing Human Standards Passions

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

Bridge Same Passions State Clubs

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Antoine Rivarol

Reason Passions Historian

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

Solitude Others Only Passions Which

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Passionate Away Passions Most

Passions are the gales of life.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

George Bernard Shaw

God Church Body Person Old Passions

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