#passions

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. ↗

— David Hume

#never #obey #office #only #other

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#cannot #children #control #culture #educational

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with. ↗

— Juliet Mills

#company #crew #first #foremost #fun

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#child #children #display #dress #envy

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#comes #disinterested #ecstasy #enthusiastic #forms

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#convulsion #ever #ever after #fits #leave

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#absence #candles #diminishes #extinguishes #fans

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#against #anger #directed #effects #goes

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