Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Passion Quotes (1643 Quotes)
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
It all boils down to passion. If you love what you are doing, you will excel in it. To us, SP is more than just a business. We love it, and because we love it passionately we make sure that everything - from our products to our service - is first rate. We value our customers, and that, I believe, is the reason behind our longevity.
Passion Works is a studio where persons with mental retardation or other disabilities can create beautiful works of art and products and provide those to the community,
I have no idea what it's like. I know everybody is all fired up at other schools when they get it. It's a great opportunity for fans and students to show we have the kind of passion for college football they have in other parts of the country. I hope there's a great turnout (to watch and cheer Saturday) and they have a great time with it.
Jacobs has a passion for the programs that she sponsors and has been very productive in getting the issues resolved in Denton County.
Ive been drawing since I was a young kid, ... I just had the passion to draw, so I kept at it. I want people to enjoy my art.
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as ofte
I just think this is a real special group. They have a passion for playing, and not just playing but playing the way we play up and down the court.
She Combines an entrepreneurial spirit with skills as a former computer specialist and corporate trainer to design real-world projects incorporating task management, teamwork, responsibility, etiquette, success and failure Has entrepreneurship students form companies to make and market products, complete tasks in an Apprentice-like game and manage a community golf tournament that raises up to 3,000 a year for charity Advises student council and school online magazine, www.dawgmag.org Turns simple keyboarding drills into PowerPoint-driven games with raffle tickets for small prizes Videoconferencing with All-USA Teacher Teammate Pam Vaughan and her rural Arkansas chemistry class for a year-long project in which her students will market soap made by Vaughan's students Collaborates with local businesses and corporations to form districtwide partnerships She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy, ... When you put that together, you have something special.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
We have a lot of guys on this defense who play with a passion, so adding another one is great. The more the merrier. He's got such a positive approach. He not only tells us we're going to win, he tells the other team we're going to win. He loves to run his mouth. I do a little of that myself, but he does it even more. He plays with a supreme confidence.
With this liturgical assembly we enter into Holy Week, to live the Passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
She is our main leader and always performs with passion.
Ray's passion, vision and devotion to WFMT fueled its growth for over 40 years, ... The success we enjoy today as one of the premier classical music radio stations in the world is due in large part to his uncompromising standards and unending enthusiasm f
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
There's a passion for the game in Latin America. It's the fans, the players, the managers, the coaches, everyone involved in the game. Everyone had such passion. You saw it today.
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.
The atmosphere is something that pretty much every Latin person has in their blood. Everybody has a lot of passion for baseball.
How voters will react to the new Gore is unknowable. But running behind such bold initiatives could be his only shot. There's a front runner in terms of name recognition. There's no front runner in terms of the passion we know we need, the leadership and
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
I do believe it's time for a British manager. It's time to have somebody who understands the passion and the belief and the commitment to the game.
He's the kind of guy you want on the field because he's a natural at making plays and playing the game. I think that time off recharges the passion he has for the game. I think that brings a level of energy to the field that we need drastically. That adds
Some guys show up when you tell them to, like two hours before a game or a practice, but Chelios will be there three or four hours earlier than that. I wish all players in the NHL had the passion and drive that Chris Chelios has for the game.
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
There is a passion to turkey hunting that is hard to describe unless you've been out there as the woods have woken up. I know turkey hunters who have been waiting for this day since last May.
It was his passion. He truly wanted to make it a better place.
I gave the ripe fruit to the Cherished One and the one-so-beautiful-as-to-bring happiness to the Beloved. But I cherish the one and truly love the other in vain. If either had a passion to subdue me, I would not know what to do.
If we execute, we will, excuse the pun, Eclipse the Microsoft environment. Microsoft is worried about the passion of what open-source software means to developers.
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
We didn't play with a lot of heart and passion. They saw that, and they pounced on us.
I always said that I would be back and told the fans that I would be back, and I always truly in my heart believed that, ... But sometimes your will, your passion, your competitiveness, kind of override what your body is going through, and I was strictly running off of those emotions and that will.
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
In each instance, Sam has done far more than manage operations effectively, ... He has made it both his personal mission and that of IBM to become the number one competitor in each of these markets. Sam's unique mix of strategic vision, passion and discip
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
He knows the fundamentals of the game. He has a passion for the game and he's smart. He knows where he needs to be at all times.
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as the very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a mighty intimidating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by passion therefore a gift bestowed on the passionless brings great reward.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
He has a gift for putting the barrel of the bat on the ball and he has a passion for doing it. You look at him starting his third year in the big leagues and you can sense the maturity he's found over the last two years. He's a lot calmer and he's playing
This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself
And leads the will to desperate undertakings
As oft as any passion under heaven
That does afflict our natures.