The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Out of passions grow opinions, mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Benjamin Disraeli
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.
John Wayne
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Antoine Rivarol
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac
These are real people with real emotions and real passions. We do our real history a disservice when we think of them as only names and dates. So we try to bring history alive.
Hal Bidlack
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Thomas Arnold
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
Jane Austen
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passions, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Antoine Rivarol
Mrs Upson had two fur coats and two chins. Mr Upson had two chins, two passions-gold and business-and two aversions, Roosevelt and Jews.
Patrick Dennis
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Henry Home
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison
A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason.
Hugo Grotius
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Alphonse Karr
Every day I deal with the same 20 percent of students; as assistant principal (along with assistant principal Kara Cotton) I deal with discipline. (But) I like to hear from the kids, about their life, education, passions, things they like, don't like. It's why I got into education in the first place, to talk to students about those things.
David Minsker
Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith
I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of my passions to come to a school and always leave it better than it was.
Debra Alexander
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Jean jacques Rousseau
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov
One thing about Dale is he's a major collector and he's a collector of Americana. He's a really specific collector. He likes to collect a lot of thing in different subjects and one of the passions he has is for American Indian blankets.
Terry Rischel
It allows the campaigns to talk to people not based on their party affiliation but based on what their passions are, what their interests are. It's truly an amazing thing that these consumer data companies collect.
Mike Vallante
The wolf is a hot-button species. It never fails to ignite passions, either for or against.
Rolf Peterson
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
William Blake
She definitely was strong spirited with her opinions and her passions.
Cheryl Archer
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The passions often engender their contraries.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
[The lyrics to] You Give Love a Bad Name ... An angel's smile is what you sell/ You promise me heaven, then put me through hell/ Chains of love got a hold on me/ When passion's a prison, you can't break free...Shot through the heart/ And you're to blame/ You give love a bad name...
Bernie Ebbers
The passions are the only orators that always persuade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.
Mark Twain
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor . . .
Sarah Bernhardt
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
Alan Keyes
If you just allow passions of the day to rule in the decision-making process, I?m under the opinion you?re almost sure to make a bad decision.
Jeff Collins
Coming to the Hope straight out of college is the best move for me right now in my life as I am simply working with one of my passions.
Kayla Burt
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
Anna Julia Cooper
He's got to let passions cool, a year at least until this trial goes forward.
Jeffrey Toobin
No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion."
Harold Pinter
You want to find more and more of the one-on-one kind of marketing approaches - much more close, intimate to the consumer. These subtle passions you try to reach out to.
Tony Ponturo
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last.
Nicholas Chamfort
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
I don't fly as much as I'd like to, but it's one of my passions.
Kevin Finan
They have passions on the track and passions off the track, and we want to focus on and help promote them. We help our driver charities, and they then go out and help charities they're passionate about.
Sandy Marshall
You get to see where their passions are. It is kind of fun to see what eighth-grade students are interested in.
Lucinda Hitchner
CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
One of his passions in life was his trombone.
Dick Emberley
It was like my two passions came together on a mountaintop.
Lance Trumbull
It's important to meet with clients outside of the office setting because they are usually less distracted. You can get a better sense of who they are; their needs, passions … and of opportunities to do business with them.
Jason Martin
Taking pictures was one of his passions.
Leticia Valle
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
Nikolai Gogol
The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.
Charlotte Catherine
Political passions have become as irrational as those of football fans.
Beppe Severgnini
Lincoln may be a revered icon, but he's also an historical figure about whom passions often run high. Certainly, we would like to make a vigorous and healthy debate about Lincoln and his legacy an important part of our bicentennial activities.
Michael Bishop
I understand now that 'special love' exists between two people when the passions lie beneath the surface.
Halle Berry
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Ralph W. Sockman
The summer concerts in Stone Park have been one of my passions.
David Foster
We are minor in everything but our passions.
Elizabeth Bowen
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
Elizabeth Taylor
Living in the residence halls gives you a wonderful opportunity to meet others who share the same passions.
Shivan Barwari
Seems to me, that the worlds are moving closer together rather than one invading the other. I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello
There are strong passions on all sides of the issue. The president's decision will be based on the facts.
Elliot Diringer
Music is one of my passions. If I'm not making music, I want to be involved in it in some way.
Zach Pollakoff
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