Famous quotes containing the word passionate:
“The necessary has never been man’s top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man’s greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler’s passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)
“I pray for fashion’s word is out
And prayer comes round again
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)