I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
Tina Yothers

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.
James D'arcy

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
Elizabeth Taylor

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de Balzac

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
Mason Cooley

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Henri B. Stendhal

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Aesop

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

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence Sterne

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu

Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Alphonse Karr

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade