All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Marquis de Sade

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
Gertrude Stein

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jean-Luc Godard

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
Mike Krzyzewski

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Jon Bon Jovi

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Henry Miller

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin