#passions

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

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

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. 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

#become #believe #country #desire #emotions

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 have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#bed #english #excited #farm #i

Love is the most selfish of all the passions. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#love #passions #selfishness #the-three-musketeers #love

Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#interests #passions #love

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#nature #passions #nature

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#cure #cured #devour #devoured #human

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#enough #ever #good #hearts #leave