Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Jose Marti

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
Cat Stevens

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Charles Baudelaire

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.
Heidi Klum

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Virgil

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
Mario Andretti

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad