What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: life imagination erotic worship passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is only one of many passions. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: love passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: identity opinions independence passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things — celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral. —Avicenna More about this quote Tags: humanity love passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. —Nadia Boulanger More about this quote Tags: action love choice passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: belief mankind passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. —James Allen More about this quote Tags: mind error man heart passion birds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way — that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: passion anger right time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The holy passion of Friendship is of 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 More about this quote Tags: friendship money passion loyalty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Tags: education passion fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Passion is momentary; love is enduring. —John Wooden More about this quote Tags: love passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: passion men and women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. —Bette Davis More about this quote Tags: passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email