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“In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.”

Ifs Knows Mind Certain Passion Forever Profound Track Tiny Contemplation Meant To Be Judaism Strain Elusive Ineffable Comprehending

Author:Ben Marcus

“You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.”

Film Certain Passion Fun Can Do Driving Thrill

Author:Truman Capote

“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.”

Should Government Form Certain Passion Principles Practice Essentials Bible Guides Occasions Temper

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.”

Men May Certain Passion Circumstances Miserable Fortunate Temper

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.”

Knows I Can Body Certain Passion Voice Answers Intellect Sentiments

Author:Berthe Morisot

“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.”

Should Self Reality Certain Passion Interest Dangerous Injustice Distrust Self Interest Trustworthy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion.”

Kind May Art Age School Certain Passion Conditions Creation Type Capacity Appreciate Appreciation Enjoyment Jealous Exclusive Incapacity

Author:George Santayana

“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”

War Certain Passion Born Differences Common Land Revolution Grew Ideals Tradition Wide Realization

Author:Vincent Massey

“The quality of Korean actors is actually quite high. Their passion is overwhelming but not many platforms are available to cater to their creative needs. They're thirsty for something new and I think that's where I connect with them. They have vision. In certain sense many Korean actors have better vision than directors.”

Thinking Needs Certain Passion Actors Quality Vision Creative Directors Available Something New Overwhelming Platforms Korean Thirsty

Author:Lee Yoon-ki

“It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.”

Ifs Love May Doe Said Soul Would Be Certain Passion Half Effects Produce Degrees Strikes Contrary Animated Insipid Soul Life

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.”

Certain Passion Imagination Moved Affection Wit

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.”

Long Christian America Certain Passion Christ Civilization Messages Extraordinary Seeds Islamic Passion Of The Christ

Author:Michael Moriarty

“In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.”

Men Faces Certain Passion Doubt Figures Divine Tests No Doubt Slips Conceited Test Of Time

Book:First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

Source: First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky