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| Alla passioner får oss att begå felsteg, men kärleken får oss att begå de löjligaste. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Att gå i graven utan att ha upplevt någon form av extas, passion eller fara skulle vara ett bortkastat liv. | Anna-Lotta Larsson |
| Beundran är en mycket kortlivad passion som omedelbart svalnar vid närmare bekantskap med föremålet. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Den som är herre över sina passioner är slav under sitt förnuft. | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| Den största orsaken till vårt elände är mindre våldsamheten i våra passioner än svagheten i våra dygder. | Joseph Roux (1834-1905) |
| En passions varaktighet står i direkt proportion mot hur länge kvinnan från början har stått emot. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Frånvaro dämpar en sval passion och förstärker en stark passion, på samma sätt som vinden släcker ett ljus men kommer en eld att flamma upp. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Företag dig inget så länge passionen varar! Man ger sig inte på seglats när det är storm. | André Fery (1714-1773) |
| Förälskade är som män som står på huvudet, de ser allt upp och ner. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Genom att tro passionerat på något som inte finns än, kan vi skapa det. Det obefintliga är det som vi inte har eftersträvat tillräckligt. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| I sin första passion älskar kvinnan sin älskare, i alla de följande är det bara kärleken hon älskar. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Jag har alltid erkänt att jag styrs av mina passioner. | Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) |
| Passion är en positiv besatthet. Besatthet är en negativ passion. | Paul Carvel (1964-) |
| Passionen är den enda talare som alltid övertalar. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Semester och semester. Från sig själv kan man egentligen bara få semester i stunder av passionerad kärlek. Eller när man sover. | Carl Hammarén (1922-1990) |
| Som regnet slår ner i en illa täckt hydda, så slår passionen ner i ett tanklöst sinne. | Indiskt ordspråk |
| Tänk på framtiden. Skaffa dig en egen passionsförsäkring. | Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) |
| Vi är små i allting som har med kärlek att göra. | Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) |
| Ömhet är passion i vila. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. | Antisthenes |
| Vices are often habits rather than passions | Antoine Rivarol |
| Never underestimate the power of passion | Eve Sawyer |
| Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion | Georg Wilhelm Hegel |
| Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. | Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) |
| Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly. | Lord Harewood |
| The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. | Marianne Moore (1887-1972) |
| There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) |
| There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture. | Sheridan Morley (1941-) |
| We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying. | Sue Grafton (1940-) |
| Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. | Virgil (70 f.Kr.-19 f.Kr.) |
| Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. | W. Eugene Smith |
| May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away | Walter Pope |
| It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters | Aesop |
| Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. | Christian Nevell Bovee |
| Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing. | Donald Trump (1946-) |
| No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| 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 (1729-1797) |
| There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. | Federico Fellini (1920-1993) |
| I do today from memory what yesterday I did in passion | Gerald Barzan |
| Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason | John Wesley (1703-1791) |
| Tenderness is the repose of Passion | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. | Nicolas Cage (1964-) |
| It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. | Rebecca West (1892-1983) |
| The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it | Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) |
| What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. | Roland Barthes (1915-1980) |
| Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| Great dancers aren't great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion | Georg Wilhelm Hegel |
| Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| 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 (1808-1890) |
| Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. | Proverb |
| When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. | Virgil (70 f.Kr.-19 f.Kr.) |
| We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying. | Sue Grafton (1940-) |
| It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. | Christian Nevell Bovee |
| 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 (1878-1967) |
| The heart that can no longer love passionately, must with fury hate | Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699) |
| Passion can never purchase what true love desires: true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| Passion is the genesis of genius. | Anthony Robbins (1960-) |
| Man is truely great when he can act from his passions | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| 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 (1908-1989) |
| However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. | Carl W. Buechner |
| Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. | Daniel Goleman |
| 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. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Never underestimate the power of passion. | Eve Sawyer |
| 'Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' | Felix Sabates |
| If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| The passions are the only orators which always persuade | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion | Helen Rowland (1876-1950) |
| Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding... | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Subdue your passion or it will subdue you | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| 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. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| Calm of mind, all passion spent | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Rest in reason; move in passion | Khalil Gibran |
| Intellectual passion drives out sensuality | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do. | Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-) |
| He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. | Martha Graham (1894-1991) |
| Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen. | Theodore H. White (1915-1986) |
| A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| The essence of poetry is will and passion. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget | William Osler (1849-1919) |
| Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |