~ Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~
~ You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. ~
~ Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~
~ Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion ~
~ We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. ~
~ It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~
~ Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~
~ Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~
~ The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. ~
~ In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~
~ I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love. ~
~ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~