They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.

Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.

I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.

Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.

“The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.”

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to destroy either of these contrary instincts, they seek to satisfy both at once. They imagine a single, omnipotent, tutelary power, but one that is elected by the citizens. They combine centralization with popular sovereignty. This gives them some respite. They console themselves for being treated as wards by imagining that they have chosen their own protectors. Each individual allows himself to be clapped in chains because that the other end of the chain is held not by a man or a class but by the people themselves.”

“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.”

“Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.”

“It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.”

“Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind. There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring, and convulsive, something that tears and distracts the breast, and is altogether destructive of that composure and tranquillity of mind which is so necessary to happiness, and which is best promoted by the contrary passions of gratitude and love.”

“to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.”

“of their passions in the same object at that particular time.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“We all have everything we need within us to create our fullest potential.”