#passions

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ↗

— Lord Byron

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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

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You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

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When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland. ↗

— Terri Windling

#always #british #celtic #celtic music #college

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#failure #fault #i #lack #passions

We are minor in everything but our passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#minor #our #passions