“We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.” NeedsHonestPassionateMeaningful Author:St. Jerome
“Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.” HonestCriticismPassionateSeekingProofLiterary CriticismRigour Book:George Steiner: A Reader Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.” AgeSpiritualPassionTermFantasyMiddleSubjectsHonestPoetConceptsEuropeIdealsPassionateNobleExtrasMiddle AgesMedievalAmourWildfiresMasochisticTroubadoursFantasy LoveHonest Love Author:Edward Hirsch
“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.” ShouldPassionHonestPassionateHypocriteHasty Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.” PeopleKnowsWantJesusHonestSickPassionateBunchBeing HonestGod LoveHungKnowing God Author:Rob Bell
“Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.” NeedsHardHonestHard WorkPassionateMpsBangalore Author:Nandan Nilekani
“To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.” GivingFirstsLove IsSacrificeHonestWillingGiving UpPassionateSelflessSelfless Love Author:Benjamin Stone
“To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless.” Love IsHonestPassionateSelfless Author:Benjamin Stone