#passions

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

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. ↗

— Chris Christie

#country #emotions #fathers #fleeing #founding

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

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#every #large #passions #same #small

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#excess #fire #like #only #passions

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

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. ↗

— Angela Carter

#appearance #cover #enterprises #even #himself

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#exaggerate #only #passions

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#feed #flame #frame #his #love

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle. ↗

— Barton Booth

#grief #miracle #passions #rage #touch