Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer's always my priority.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
We are minor in everything but our passions.
Love is only one of many passions.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.
I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
I would love to act for the rest of my life, but I also know that it could be taken away in a day. It's something I've always loved, but it's nothing I've ever revolved my entire life around. I have many other passions as well.
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.