Quotes by Passion My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. Barbara Jordan constitution passion decision It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. Barbara Jordan passion emotional decision April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts. Barbara Kingsolver passion crazy spring In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune. Barbara Kingsolver passion running long Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion. Barbara Kingsolver passion believe book His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools. Barbara Mikulski passion opportunity school Passion with another cannot sustain a relationship. Passion exists in the moment, and this moment passes into a memory. In order to sustain a relationship, you must be passionately alive. As a result, you will continue to bring your passion to the one you love. You will not need it to come from another, because you will be sharing your abounding supply from within you. Barbara Rose passion love-you memories What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing. Barbara Sher passion careers heart Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation. Barbara Sher doing-what-you-love passion love-is Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected. Barbara Taylor Bradford cousin passion love Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office. Barbara Tuchman passion successful exercise Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. Barbra Streisand badass women passion Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered. Barnett Newman painting passion voice Painting, like passion, is a living voice. Barnett Newman painting passion voice There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. Baron de Montesquieu passion powerful law As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same. Baron de Montesquieu passion age men Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly. Baron de Montesquieu passion feels In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength. Baron de Montesquieu passion heart lying Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions. Baron de Montesquieu passion knowing self The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins. Baron de Montesquieu ruins machines passion «2223242526272829303132»
