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Letter "P" » Passion
«As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.»
Author: Antisthenes
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
consumed, eaten, eating away, eat away, envious, rust
«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.»
«Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos»
Author: Francis Ford Coppola
| About:
Consequences,
Passion
| Keywords:
build on, intense, invites, large scale, scale
«A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.»
«All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate»
«All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Art,
History,
Passion
| Keywords:
history of art, ineffectual, novels
«As water, when transmuted into steam, becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion, when transmuted into intellectual and moral force, becomes a new life, a new power for the accomplishment of high and unfailing purposes.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
purposes, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
«Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.»
«All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of love, and feed his sacred flame.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Passion
| Keywords:
ministers, stirs
«An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
accomplished, coquette, coquettes, excites, proportion, The Passions
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