“One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.” ChildrenTwoPassionGrowsLosesGrowing UpTearsSorrowCapacityFunctionRageManageMannersGrievingCivilized Book:Brief lives Source: Brief lives
“The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.” ArtRealPassionSexImaginationLove IsCreationActivityFunctionMysteriousFedsRivalsPerversion Author:Gertrude Atherton
“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.” WayPastOrderPassionGoalRiskShareEconomicCenturyCreationReaderProudSkillsMembersEconomicsTraditionFunctionInstitutionsFinancialPhilosopherBrilliantAppealsAnalysisOur SocietyCompellingWorldlyImaginativeFinancial InstitutionsUnknown Future Author:Peter L. Bernstein
“Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.” PeopleSoulAmericaPastPoliticalPassionLeftPowerfulCenturyEmotionalFoolCapitalismHatredLogicFunctionMythSocialismHatefulEnviousAnti SemitismScapegoatRecessAmericanismBlameless Author:Michael Gove
“Each time we deny our female functions, each time we deviate from our bodies' natural path, we move father away from out feminine roots. Our female bodies need us now more than ever, and we too need the wisdom, the wildness, the passion, the joy, the vitality and the authenticity that we can gain through this most intimate of reconciliations.” NeedsBodyMovingJoyPassionFatherNaturalPathGainsFemaleRootsFunctionDenyAuthenticityIntimateFeminineVitalityReconciliationWildnessDeviateFemale Body Author:Sarah J. Buckley
“If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves, in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.” PeopleIfsWayWellsHelpingShowsPassionGrowsAudienceFunctionEnthusiasmGenreGenre Is Author:Matthew Davis
“I will never stop trying to find new ways to promote healthy living. It's my passion and my mission to help others understand what's necessary for our bodies to function properly.” WayTryingHelpingBodyPassionHealthyFunctionMissionsHelping OthersNew WaysHealthy LivingMy PassionStop Trying Author:Stacy Keibler
“The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.” PassionMinesColorRedFunctionMemorableEngagingSelectedColor RedFlirtatious Author:Christian Louboutin
“Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.” IfsThinkingTwoReasonFeelingsPassionActivityIntellectualFlowFunctionRationalTornNeuroticThoughts And FeelingsRational ThoughtTorn ApartSchizoid Book:The Revolution of Hope Source: The Revolution of Hope
“The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.” WarSelfFormPassionSportsModernFootballBasketballFunctionBiggerRageSoccerBoredomFrustrationNationalismSubstitutesTemporaryCombatAcceptableIdentificationTransference Author:Edward Abbey