#passions

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#bottle #feels #friend #get #having

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#passions #anger

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

#act #boundary #feelings #influence #men

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #consists #enjoyment #happiness #nature

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ↗

— Lord Byron

#feeling #i #i can #long #nature

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#connected #curiosities #human #i #i believe

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#american #eclectic #follow #going #hurts

What passions cannot music raise or quell? ↗

— John Dryden

#music #passions #quell #raise