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Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Soren Kierkegaard

What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Stendhal

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Stendhal

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

T. S. Eliot

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Tacitus

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

Thomas Browne

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

Thomas Browne

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Thomas Hobbes

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

Toni Morrison

Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.

W. H. Auden

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

William Godwin

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

William Hazlitt

Give me that man that is not passion's slave.

William Shakespeare

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

Benjamin Franklin

I have but one passion; it is He, He only.

Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people...it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

2296. Lincoln's Legal Fee

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When he was an attorney, Abraham Lincoln was once approached by a man who passionately insisted on bringing a suit for $2.50 against an impoverished debtor. Lincoln tried to discourage him, but the man was bent on revenge. When he saw that the man would not be put off, Lincoln agreed to take the case and asked for a legal fee of $10, which ...

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

2298. The First and Last Things

Luke 23:26-43

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Brett Blair

... confession, or at least it appears to be a confession. It is generally thought that the character Mr. Britling is a surrogate for Wells. The character expresses a simple but clear faith, leaving no doubt as to the meaning. At first, his religious views are passionate, but not strictly orthodox. Mr. Britling makes this confession, giving us a window into Wells' on beliefs: "Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a  man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he ...

2299. The Art of Critique

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... cultural symptoms of storm and stress. He knows that he will need to minister not to logical, rational, easy people. But to dissatisfied, unhappy, frustrated people, angry people, ornery people, depressed people. Jesus is describing a conflicted and angry but passionate culture. One not at all unlike our own. Did you ever get in a “mood” where you felt, tired, bored, frustrated, angry, and because of circumstances our of your control, just felt “ornery,” as if nothing could please you. Some ...

2300. Dealing with T-A-R-E-ists

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... at home. And then, as we have also seen in both Iraq and Afghanistan — crusades, even those done with the best of intentions and out of the highest motives — almost always result in collateral damage, the loss of innocent lives caught in the crossfire of our passion, whether it be for democracy and freedom, or even for the truth of the gospel and pure theology. The story is told that in one of the first crusades, knights from Western Europe attacked an Arab town on their way to the holy land and killed ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 2276 to 2300 of 2415 results

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Soren Kierkegaard

What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Stendhal

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Stendhal

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

T. S. Eliot

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Tacitus

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

Thomas Browne

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

Thomas Browne

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Thomas Hobbes

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.