Top 25 Quotes About Ruling Passion
#2. It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as
naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
Abraham Lincoln
#3. Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
Alexander Pope
#4. A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
Graham Greene
#5. Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
Robert Frost
#6. The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to
derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes
into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,
and brings in perennial interest.
Frederick Soddy
#7. The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.
Edward Gibbon
#8. Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#9. Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Alexander Pope
#10. To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Richard Whately
#11. The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
#12. Love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
Mary McCarthy
#13. Oh, I inherited my emotions from Calandria May, and I understand now that each human has a ruling passion, one that serves as the fountainhead from which flow all semblances of happiness, sadness, anger, and joy.
Karl Schroeder
#14. My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
Bell Hooks
#15. When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
William Hazlitt
#16. The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
William Hazlitt
#17. When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,
or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,
farewell cool reason and fair discretion.
Laurence Sterne
#18. Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.
Robert Graves
#19. In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
Alexander Pope
#20. At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.
Rufus Sewell
#21. Is a known fact that in life, you can't have everything
Jenny Han
#22. Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.
L. P. Jacks
#23. Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus ... I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.
Thomas Jefferson
#24. Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
Robert Anton Wilson
#25. Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
To fill the world with vicious qualities.
William Shakespeare
