Passion Quotes - Page 39

• [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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• Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

  Thomas Southerne

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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

  Richard B. Garnett

  Blind, Guides

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• Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets.

  Augusto De Luca

  Believe, Mean, Commitment

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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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• If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.

  Heloise

  Heart, Fire, Expression

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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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• while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.

  Iris Origo

  Drama, Men, Stories

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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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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Struggle, Men

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• The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Heartbreak, May, Ends

  Mona Van Duyn (1993). “Firefall: poems”, Alfred A. Knopf

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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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• Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

  Jean Fritz

  Book, Written

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• I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Believe, I Believe

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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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• Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

  Dave Sitek

  Song, Teacher, Love Is

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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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