Passion Quotes Page 9

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
Robert Plant

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
Cat Stevens

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
James K. Polk

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Dave Grohl

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Angela Carter

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Al Sharpton

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Gary Oldman

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.
Ryan Reynolds

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Karl Kraus

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Elihu Root