Unbridled Passion Quotes

• I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

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  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Passion   Writing   Play  

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

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  John Quincy Adams

  Religious   Business   4th Of July  

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• Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.

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  Tom Peters

  Peace   Mistake   Passion  

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.116, Vintage

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• This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

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  Michel Houellebecq

  Passion   Years   Long  

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• Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

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  Zachary Levi

  Passion   People   Comedian  

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• If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

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  Howard Schultz

  Passion   Enthusiasm   Succeed  

  "Good C.E.O.'s Are Insecure (and Know It)". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2010.

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• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

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  John Adams

  Religious   Revenge   Passion  

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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  John Lothrop Motley

  Animal   Unbridled Passion   Terrible  

  John Lothrop Motley (2011). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History”, p.133, Cambridge University Press

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• Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

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  Erma Bombeck

  Wonderful   Surprise   Spontaneity  

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• Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

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  Annie Besant

  Strong   Passion   Class  

  Annie Wood Besant (1910). “The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909”

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• It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.

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  Paul Heyman

  Passion   Reckless   Abandon  

  Twitter post from

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