The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
Honor de Balzac
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire
Aristotle
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
Unknown
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
Edmund Burke
We just decided that we were going to play the game with some passion and have fun. So there was a little tenacity and intensity, and that was the objective.
Micah Tiffin
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Dame Rebecca West
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby
Tenderness is the repose of Passion.
Joseph Joubert
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram
Karl Kraus
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
Edmund Burke
A master passion is the love of news.
George Crabbe