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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".

H. Allen Smith

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Georges Clemenceau
French politician (1841 - 1929)

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 - 1850)

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519)

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527)

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Georges Clemenceau
French politician (1841 - 1929)

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/society/coffin.html

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003
English mystery author (1893 - 1957)

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan
British historian (1876 - 1962)

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

George Sand
French author (1804 - 1876)

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