You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Passions are the gales of life.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
One of my passions in life is to try to inspire people. I don't know if that sounds cheesy, but I genuinely love to do that.
My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
