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Letter "P" » Passion
«Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.»
«The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.»
Author: Bryan Miller
| About:
Cooking,
Passion,
Work
| Keywords:
abiding, akin, balance, cook, exceptional, impeccable, limb, sense of balance, The Task, tightrope, walker, walkers
«The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Pain,
Passion,
Suffering
| Keywords:
actual, considerable, endured, For any, grieves, happen upon, indulges, suffers, willingly
«The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.»
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life,
Passion
| Keywords:
governed, longing, overwhelmingly, passions, pity, search, The Search, The Suffering, unbearable
«The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Men,
Passion,
Women
| Keywords:
cease, differ, differed, hence, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, misunderstands, nonetheless, passions, tempo
«The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Passion,
Pride
| Keywords:
graft, grafted, grafting, grafts, inveterate, The Passions, vigorous, wounded
«The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains»
«The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way»
«The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Passion
| Keywords:
profoundest, publishes, sensibility, sleeps
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