Paul Newman Quotes

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Anger is a good motivator.

Everybody has their own desires.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

The passions are the voice of the body.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Our passions are ourselves.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

Love, yes. Word known to all men.

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.