A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
激情
Passion
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
对政治的热情通常源于对权力、友谊和奉承的贪得无厌的需求，或者两者兼而有之。
People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.
有激情的人是会毁灭的人，因为一个人的激情只有在他证明自己愿意为之付出多少代价时才算真正的激情。
If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
如果你觉得有什么事情是你应该做的，如果你对它有激情，那么停止希望，去做。
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
明智的是谁?向每个人学习的人。强大的是谁?控制自己激情的人。谁是富人?知足者常乐。那是谁?没有人。
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
牙痛，或者一种强烈的激情，并不一定会因为我们对其原因、性质、重要性或无关紧要的认识而减弱。
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
人们常常注意到，在激情的激励下写出好诗的人，在其他情况下却写不好。
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
因为，无论观察到多少激情，它都能带来洞察;它能给傻瓜、傻瓜和白痴带来某种智慧，尤其是在青年时期。
We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.
我们根据人们的长相来决定;我们根据人们的声音来决定;我们根据人们的穿着来决定。我们是根据他们的热情来决定的。
It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.
它不可能永远是下午的爱和晚上的激情，礼物，笔记，喂给对方的饭。不可能都是那样的。
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
只要有音乐家对自发性有激情，对创造前所未有的东西有激情，爵士乐的艺术形式就会蓬勃发展。
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
当爱生了病，我们能做的最好的事情就是把它暴死;我不能忍受一种挥之不去的消费激情的折磨。
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
艺术是与娱乐结合在一起的道德激情。没有娱乐的道德激情是宣传，没有道德激情的娱乐是电视。
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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
我一生中遇到的最悲伤的人是那些对任何事情都漠不关心的人。激情和满足是相辅相成的，没有它们，任何幸福都只是暂时的，因为没有什么能让它持久。
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
没有什么比希望更能激起人们对可能的激情。
Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
平庸不能激发伟大的爱，也不能激发伟大的恨。
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
我很容易感到无聊，所以我需要做很多。我已经成立了一个唱片公司，所以我可以培养新的人才，谈论音乐，这是我的激情。我又写了一本书。我开始工作，做电视节目，这总是很有趣。
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
没有尽头。没有开始。生命中只有激情。
My passion is my family and the world of fashion.
我的激情是我的家庭和时尚世界。