Top 43 Passionless Quotes
#1. What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
Martin Luther King Jr.
#2. Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
Aristotle.
#3. History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#4. The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.
John Piper
#5. passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability.
Harrison Owen
#6. Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
William S. Wilson
#7. In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
Joe Biden
#8. The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
Czeslaw Milosz
#9. If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like a deity on an altar, passionless and calculating.
Megan Whalen Turner
#10. Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear,
It lives all passionless and pure:
An age shall fleet like earthly year;
Its years in moments shall endure.
Away, away, without a wing,
O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly;
A nameless and eternal thing,
Forgetting what it was to die.
George Gordon Byron
#11. To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#12. Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#13. Warning signs that lover is bored:
1. Passionless kisses
2. Frequent sighing
3. Moved, left no forwarding address.
Matt Groening
#14. Having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless.
Hanya Yanagihara
#15. Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
Frank Herbert
#16. Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession.
John Peter Nettl
#17. Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#18. Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers
#19. Passionless leaders cost everyone who follows them.
Bill Johnson
#20. English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#21. Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people with something worth renouncing. That's why the church won't allow eunuchs to become priests.
Antal Szerb
#22. Call me when you grow up and decide you can handle a real relationship instead of some perfect-on-paper, passionless dead-zone." He
Maggie Kelley
#23. Nothing seemed to give me pleasure anymore, not even music. My attitude was becoming more and more fatalistic and hopeless. I had no enthusiasm, and no particular interest in anything, including sex. It was as though I'd become a passionless robot, simply existing from day to day without feeling.
Scott Pratt
#24. It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.
Frank Smythe
#25. I had lost all perspective; I was wandering in a desperate purgatory (with a gray man in a gray boat in a gray river: an apathetic Charon dawdling upon a passionless phlegmatic River Styx ... and a petulant Christ child bawling on the train ... ).
Sylvia Plath
#26. I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
Peace Pilgrim
#28. Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.
( ... ) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.
Dossie Easton
#30. When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed.
CM Punk
#31. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
#33. Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#34. To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.
Malcolm Forbes
#35. Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
Ryan Murphy
#36. In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.
Michael M. Honda
#37. Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.
Thomas L. Friedman
#38. If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
David Hilbert
#39. I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.
Socrates
#40. Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.
Winona LaDuke
#41. You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.
I.M. Pei
#42. If everything is definite,
then men need no passion.
Toba Beta
#43. To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.
Osman Bakar
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