Pastoral Resources

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?