Top 75 Quotes About Impassioned
#1. Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
Emma Lazarus
#2. Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
Pierre De Coubertin
#3. One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
Benjamin Haydon
#4. Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
Sophie Swetchine
#5. Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
Stephen Covey
#6. Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures?
L.M. Montgomery
#7. Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.
Mariella Frostrup
#9. I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned ... than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.
Philippe Pinel
#10. The highly respected macroeconomist Jeffrey Sachs has recently made an impassioned and well-argued case in his book The Price of Civilization that mindfulness needs to be at the heart of any attempt to resolve the major problems we face as a country and, by implication, as a world.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#11. During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.
Fabien Cousteau
#12. Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
Anton Chekhov
#13. Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.
John D. Caputo
#14. Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#15. I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.
Mindy Kaling
#16. Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
Sophie Swetchine
#17. To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses
A.A. Patawaran
#18. He was speaking to me, one eyebrow arched like a parabola, his face closed with resolve, impassioned with purpose, yet calm, as if he was so good at what he did he didn't need to break a sweat.
C.D. Reiss
#19. I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassioned men, indifferent men, jealous men.
Marcel Proust
#20. And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored.
Thomas Hardy
#22. My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint masterpieces. They think they will die, small and forgotten, and it dictates their every action.
Thomm Quackenbush
#23. It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.
D.H. Lawrence
#24. I'm attracted to people. To the words they speak, to the actions they take, to their full-bodied mannerisms and soulful gaits. I am attracted to people. To impassioned hearts that beat out of sync, the ones that skip a measure, heard in hushed places and violent spaces - I am attracted to people.
Krista Ritchie
#25. You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.
Henry Rollins
#26. As she walked slowly down the hall, she could hear them arguing - nothing violent, nothing impassioned. But then, she'd not have expected that. Cavendish tempers ran cold, and they were far more likely to attack with a frozen barb than a heated cry.
Julia Quinn
#27. The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature ... the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.
H.L. Mencken
#28. The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence,
not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind.
William Kirby
#29. What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.
Nick Laird
#30. I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were ... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#31. Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.
Laurence Overmire
#32. Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
Soren Kierkegaard
#33. My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.
Franz Liszt
#34. An impassioned spirit truly paints the gray world with color.
Krista Ritchie
#35. Then give me your answer." He crushed a brief, impassioned kiss against her lips. "Say it, or I'll have to keep kissing you until you surrender.
Lisa Kleypas
#36. And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.
Frederick Henry Hedge
#37. Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.
Charlotte Beers
#38. It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#39. You just say it. That's how you say something that's hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take it step by step. You say the words. There is no magic formula. There is no secret sauce. But there are words, she says emphatically, as if she's delivering an impassioned speech.
Lauren Blakely
#40. In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.
Rene Cassin
#41. My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.
Jason Silva
#42. Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.
Rod Stryker
#43. What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its ecstasy, Will always have been great things, great things to me!
Thomas Hardy
#44. And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater
#45. Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#46. Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.
Jonathan Falwell
#47. The concerto's beauty was even more impassioned than he remembered, and also more piteous and quiet and restrained, and he clasped his hands together to absorb both the grief and joy in his body.
Madeleine Thien
#48. Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Maxwell Struthers Burt
#49. I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.
Stephen Fry
#50. But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.
Juan Goytisolo
#51. Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time he spoke. He
Umberto Eco
#52. Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.
Thomas M. Disch
#53. Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
Edna Ferber
#54. I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.
Max Lucado
#55. The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
Max Ernst
#56. Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.
Alexandra Stoddard
#57. No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
David Brainerd
#58. I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.
Adam Levine
#59. She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.
Sherry Thomas
#60. At that time, American radio was a cauldron if impassioned voices - live preachers, talk-show hosts, and salesmen. The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.
David Byrne
#61. It becomes your impassioned belief that you can have a conversation and turn this wrongheadedness around.
Susan J Elliott
#62. Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill
L.P. Hartley
#63. What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
Andre Dubus
#64. I no longer wished to have a diluted life, made faint by living according to the norms and values of an older generation who'd forgotten what it felt like to have the impassioned representatives of soul and spirit lobby their vessel with an unrelenting persistence to take them on an adventure.
Ken Ilgunas
#65. There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.
Alain Ducasse
#66. We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.
Adam Rayner
#67. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#68. How was it that he could move soldiers to great acts of heroism and sacrifices with impassioned speeches, yet his mouth went as dry as the northern desert when he thought to tell Malinali that he'd enjoyed their afternoon together?
T.L. Morganfield
#69. But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.
Thomas Love Peacock
#70. When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were possible. She said that the past was not static, our memories fold and bend, we change with every step taken into the future.
Madeleine Thien
#71. Oftentimes it's easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn't always so attractive.
Terry Goodkind
#72. There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children
Jim George
#73. I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.
Erin Gruwell
#74. portrayed, in the most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#75. Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
