- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29300/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29300/ <![CDATA[He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29253/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29253/ <![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29252/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29252/ <![CDATA[It is the passions that do and undo everything.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29247/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29247/ <![CDATA[All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29238/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29238/ <![CDATA[In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29236/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29236/ <![CDATA[There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29235/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29235/ <![CDATA[I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29231/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29231/ <![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29230/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29230/ <![CDATA[If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39113/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39113/ <![CDATA[But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43068/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43068/ <![CDATA[Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39092/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39092/ <![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29258/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29258/ <![CDATA[In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29262/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29262/ <![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29228/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29228/ <![CDATA[Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29296/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29296/ <![CDATA[The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29291/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29291/ <![CDATA[Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29286/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29286/ <![CDATA[I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29282/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29282/ <![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29277/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29277/ <![CDATA[Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29276/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29276/ <![CDATA[Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29275/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29275/ <![CDATA[Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29272/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29272/ <![CDATA[It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29270/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29270/ <![CDATA[Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29269/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29269/ <![CDATA[He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29267/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29267/ <![CDATA[If you judge, investigate.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21868/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21868/ <![CDATA[If you would judge, understand.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21867/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21867/ <![CDATA[Whatever is well said by another, is mine.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20543/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20543/ <![CDATA[Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18658/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18658/ <![CDATA[True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18518/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18518/ <![CDATA[If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17168/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17168/ <![CDATA[If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19407/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19407/ <![CDATA[Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19409/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19409/ <![CDATA[The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19429/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19429/ <![CDATA[Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19433/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19433/ <![CDATA[He that lives upon hope will die fasting.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19436/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19436/ <![CDATA[Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19442/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19442/ <![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19446/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19446/ <![CDATA[Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19451/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19451/