Famous quotes containing the word passions:
“Our passions are most like to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)