T Quotes
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“The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.”
Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.”
“The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.”
“The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.”
“The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.”
“The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.”
“The passionate heart is a vessel with full sail set.”
“The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.”
“The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they lie on their deathbeds, they have few regrets.”
“The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.”
Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
“The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.”
“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.”
“The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.”
“The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.”
“The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.”
“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”
“The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.”
“The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!”
Source: The Mysteries of Udolpho
“The passions are the voice of the body.”
Source: Emile
“The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.”
“The passions do not die out; they burn out.”
“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”
“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.”
“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”
Source: Papers
“The passions of love ignite, the emotions of love kindle, but the actions of love set the heart ablaze.”
“The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.”
Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
“The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.”
“The passions of the young are vices in the old.”
“The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.”
“The passions often engender their contraries.”
“The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”
“The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.”
Source: Table-talk
“The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.”
“The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.”
“The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.”
Source: Everything Beautiful Began After
“The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government.”
Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
“The passive-aggressive person does not say what he thinks. He says what he thinks you want to hear.”
“The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.”
Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)
“The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.”
“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.”
Source: The marrow of theology
“The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.”
“The passport changes but the blood doesn't”
“The password is a flicker of an eyelash.”
“The password to creativity is SILENCE.”
Source: Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
“The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?”
“The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.”
Source: Prologue to Love