Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and then I do weights a few times a week. It's just how I can balance eating pancakes in the morning, a big burger for lunch, and then a fat steak and cheesecake at night.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.
Acting was always my passion, even before music, so I knew I was always heading down that path.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.
Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well.
I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.
Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.
I've always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that's what I should be doing.
I believe young people hold the key to building a vibrant global Jewish future, and we must invest in their passion and potential to do so.
I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture - showing its color, its passion and its greatness - and one that captures much of my personal style.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I'm very touched by kids who don't have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.
